James Bamford is back. Of course the author of the ground-breaking book on the NSA, The Puzzle Palace (1983), and various other spectacular books on intelligence matters has never really been away. But he has an excellent story in Rolling Stone right now, the first of a promising series. I have come across Mr John Rendon in various episodes and it is good to see this detailed analysis of his involvement with the Iraq war. A good read for a quiet Saturday night.
Finally, in early 2004, more than two years after he made the dramatic allegations to Miller and Moran about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction, al-Haideri was taken back to Iraq by the CIA's Iraq Survey Group. On a wide-ranging trip through Baghdad and other key locations, al-Haideri was given the opportunity to point out exactly where Saddam's stockpiles were hidden, confirming the charges that had helped to start a war.
In the end, he could not identify a single site where illegal weapons were buried.
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