[gov_bean_ counter]

Why this particular chain of custody? Have some in the intelligence community been sitting on information linking Saddam to WMD's? Nah.

[Coop]

I haven't a clue on the chain of custody. I'm looking forward to learning more about it. As I said last week, I'm not considering these tapes to be the "smoking gun" (since I know so little about them), but I do find this story intriguing. And it's even more intriguing now that Mr. Loftus provided the above timeline supposedly leading the Intel Committee to re-open its investigation.

[Liberty Valance]

Have some in the intelligence community been sitting on information linking Saddam to WMD's?

I would certainly hope somebody could keep a secret. It's more important to know where Saddam sent his WMD than to worry about what political points the dems have been scoring off the President on this issue during a time of war.

The dems lied...people died.

[Fishtalk]

Why this particular chain of custody?

Good question.

I'm of a mind this was an orchestrated leak. Perhaps by the administration. It was given to the House Intelligence committee as it notes. Not a newspaper.

If so, and I'm guessing, then it's about time the administration pressed back about those weapons. They let that "no weapons of mass destruction" go entirely too far.

[EERinOK]

"Have some in the intelligence community been sitting on information linking Saddam to WMD's?"

Both sides have reason to sit, one side has reason to tell. D-team wants the issue, as usual. Good guys whould have let this cat out of the bag.

Hopefully it's the dems getting rope-a-doped. On the other hand, the right must think they were bullet-proof if they knew and sandbagged until now for this. Maybe, hopefully, it's becasue they had to.