One chapter is on the Valerie Plame affair. It is well-written, but
it was always much ado about nothing. In the end it was only White House
clumsiness that made it more interesting. Other chapters cover the faulty
U.S. intelligence concerning weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, Ahmed
Chalabi and his CIA-funded Iraqi National Congress, and deceptive body
counts in Iraq. The Chalabi chapter includes 13 pages on Judith Miller,
who really deserves a book of her own. She sat in jail for 85 days over
the Plame affair for refusing to testify. But she should have been jailed,
along with her editors, for her inaccurate reporting in the New York Times.
Chalabi was her major source for a series of fear-mongering articles about
WMDs in Iraq over a period of ten years. This coverage by the NYT created
an environment of anti-Iraq public opinion that paved the way for the U.S.
invasion. NYT eventually fired Miller, long after it was much too late.
ISBN 1-58542-509-5
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