I posted a theory long ago, after the WMD search started to look like it was going south... it goes like this:
Iraq was said to have something like 10,000 munition depots. So many that locating and clearing all of them would take years, even with massive manpower allocated to the task. Chem and Bio facilities can be quite small and can be hidden just about anywhere.
The last thing we would want would be for it to be common knowledge that there are various chem or bio weapons stashed around the place easy for the pickin'. It would become some kind of sick race against Al Queda to see who could find them first.
But spread the news, and take the PR hit, that there is nothing being found... and it buys time.
Just a thought. Maybe just wishful thinking, but it sure connects all the dots.
... not to mention the stuff that needs to be found in Syria. Buys time for that too.
I believe the same thing, and know for a fact that much of our successes in the GWOT are never discussed in the media due to National Security issues. However, our GOP leadership that is aware of such issues need to start smacking the Rats down or they will pay a political price for their silence. If the leadership changes the Rats will be the first to claim success at every opportunity no matter what the impact on National Security is... There has to be a way... Hence the WH PR dillema.
If you remember back in the beginning of the WOT the POTUS said that we would not know everything that went on and that there would be disinformation.