"At present, we're relying too much on translations by bloggers and other amateurs. House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra, R-Mich., says the White House has been dragging its feet for fear of embarrassing supposed allies (such as Russia) whose links with Saddam would come under scrutiny."
This statement is slamming the Gov't not Jveritas. The problem here is that these document translations should have been included in the Prewar Intelligence investigation. Let's face it, the US Intelligence Agencies were guessing due to the lack of HUMINT on the ground in Iraq. I think that investigation should be reopened to balance the Prewar intelligence picture against these documents. This is the actual historical record of the Hussien regime.
Once again this was played poorly by the administration and history well have to be rewritten.
"This statement is slamming the Gov't not Jveritas. "
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I never implied that it was slamming JVeritas.
But JVeritas posted his translation prior to this article, so there is a good chance they used his translation, especially since they specifically quote and refer to the article he recently translated and posted.
He deserves praise and I think it's great that the WSJ is paying attention to his translations.
The article also mentions that the Russians clearly had much better intel, than we did.
Our lack of intel was indeed as a result of lack of HUMINT on our part, as you pointed out -- all thanks to Clinton, who cut back on that and created insumountable obstacles for our intel agents, not allowing them to associated with anyone other than Mother Theresa, who is not exactly a good intel asset.