Latest in the WMD declassification. .
June 21, 2006
It’s 10:42pm ET and only FoxNews.com is running with any mention of the Santorum/Hoekstra WND debriefing on their front page. See the latest roundup at Captain’s Quarters.
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Washington Post is reporting on it now:
“The lawmakers pointed to an unclassified summary from a report by the National Ground Intelligence Center regarding 500 chemical munitions shells that had been buried near the Iranian border, and then long forgotten, by Iraqi troops during their eight-year war with Iran, which ended in 1988.
The U.S. military announced in 2004 in Iraq that several crates of the old shells had been uncovered and that they contained a blister agent that was no longer active. Neither the military nor the White House nor the CIA considered the shells to be evidence of what was alleged by the Bush administration to be a current Iraqi program to make chemical, biological and nuclear weapons.
Last night, intelligence officials reaffirmed that the shells were old and were not the suspected weapons of mass destruction sought in Iraq after the 2003 invasion.”
Although it’s not technically a blockbuster story (we’ve been running across minor remnants of the pre-invasion chemical program), it should have displaced a few Brangelina headlines on the major news sites, which was my point. Regardless of era and origin, it’s 500 shells that weren’t accounted for.