With a name like Curve Ball ...

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills - Iraq War's informant - Brief article - Column

60 Minutes recently tracked down Curve Ball. You will recall that he was the source of the "intelligence" about mobile biological weapons laboratories, which the show's anchor Bob Simon accurately described as the "crown jewel" of Colin Powell's statement before the United Nations that was crucial in persuading so many Americans to support the Iraq War.

On the show itself, Curve Ball admitted that he lied. But when he suggested that someone else was involved in concocting his fiction, and Simon pressed him about the identity of that person, Curve Ball rose from...