Defense Department counterintelligence investigators suspected that Iranian exiles who provided dubious intelligence on Iraq and Iran to a small group of Pentagon officials might have "been used as agents of a foreign intelligence service ... to reach into and influence the highest levels of the U.S. government," a Senate Intelligence Committee report said Thursday.
A top aide to then-secretary of defense Donald H. Rumsfeld, however, shut down the 2003 investigation into the Pentagon officials' activities after only a month, and the Defense Department's top brass never followed up on the investigators' recommendation for a more thorough investigation, the Senate report said.
We all know we were lied to. Now, it seems, it is more than possible that some American officials were being played. Rather than figure out if this were true - it is war, after all - the investigation in to the backtrail of this information was closed down. Apparently not wanting to know what's really going on is a pre-requisite for being an official of the Bush Administration.
January 20, 2009 cannot come fast enough.
UPDATE: Atrios offers an even more sinister conspiracy theory. Click the link and read it for yourself. Kind of creepy, no?
