Kinda, sorta sounds like the United States Intelligence Services are not too intelligent!!! The CIA lied, covered up things and filed false reports all through the Vietnam War. Thousands of lives were lost because of faulty intelligence and just plain munipulation of the facts. Are we going down the same road in Iraq?

arrogance > ignornace > incompetence

This is another botched affair of the Bush Administration. The Administration fails to take responsibility for its actions. It is as if, another scape goat has been found to take responsibility. When, where and how will these feeble excuses end. In my opinion, it will end when the Republican administration is removed from office. The sooner they are removed the better it will be for the American public.

President Bush should be impeached because of this.

Pathetic.

moron* and his room full of dopes salivated over anything that would let them bomb Iraq.

Like running blindly into a lions den, they failed to read the very obvious entrance sign, "Caution, certain (political) death!" All the while telling others to follow them to victory!

lies got us to where we are today, lies by this iraqi and lies by our failed administration* over the lies they* created.

Morons, morons, morons.

That's interesting. Any word on what his position was within Iraq? I had suspected that perhaps Ahmed Chalabi was Curveball and fed misleading information straight to the vice president's office. I guess Curveball was a smaller fry?

What would be more interesting is who hired all of these patsies to play their roles in the run up to the Iraq war. They knew this guy was a liar... they just needed a patsy to blame in the event they got caught.

Ohhhh-yeah. Right. Now like I would really believe McLaughlin at this time that he never heard one word against Curveball. This administration has so many liars in its midst, there is no "midst" because, they're ALL liars.

Your headline and first paragraph of this story are misleading. Colin Powell did not lead the US to start the war with Iraq, the Bush administration had a clear cut plan to get to Iraq - with or without Colin Powell.

This is the kind of non-denial denial I'm getting really sick of:
""This man never came into my office, sat down, looked me in the eye and made a case that Curveball was a fabricator. That didn't happen," McLaughlin, now retired, told ABC News."
It sets out that if the meeting didn't happen in his office then the whole encounter is not true.
Could they have met in the hallway or the washroom or the Capitol steps? Maybe but you'd have to ask him that specific question I guess.

yes you did, no i didn't, yes you did...........c'mon you guys better start tellin the truth or your going to bed with out supper!

This cant be true?
The entire formulation of the Iraq campaign was based on the testimony of an an "unstable, immature and unreliable" source, who apparently didnt want to be deported back to Iraq? Is it possible for one to ingest the idea that 1 source who was deemed unrealiable was the entire basis for an ENTIRE COUNTRY to go to WAR?
And The American people Voted the Administration into a second term into office so that good ole Dubya would be able to "defeat the axis of evil" and finish daddies war? Come on! IN highschool Journalism class we learned to never even run a story about the chess team unless we have at least 3 reliable sources who check out against eachother!
Not only that, But, Even this Curveball person never mentioned a word about Nuclear Weapons!

Powell knew full well what lies were going into his speech; and he still went through with it. What they couldn't cherry pick, they made up; like the ‘doggy dossier’. Nothing like plagiarizing a 11 year old document to make one’s day.

Sounds like they Tyler Drumheller and John McLaughlin should come before congress and be asked about what really happened. One of them is telling the truth.

Administration and media are in Blame The Iraqis mode. It won't work.

When is the last 27%-30% of America finally going to realize that anything, and everything, that comes out of the Bush regime's mouth is utterly untrue?

what a shock, afterall we did go there for weapons of mass destruction, hung colin powell out to dry, then when no wmd's were found, hey lets liberte the iraqi people, mission accomplished!!! uh that was almost 4 years ago. well over 3000 american soldiers dead, thousands more maimed for life, or criplled not to mention at least 50,000 dead iraqis. a lot of women and children. yeah we destroyed their country too. what a plan. so yeah its going well, what a joke. dubya should be thrown out of office cuz hes the decider.

We the American people are being brain washed avery day by this Administration,When are we gone wake up and realize that Our County will be another FALLING Roman Empire, WE are falling becouse Invading other country's for Oil, just look how much we are getting ripped off at the gas pump,
GOD will judge our administration sooner or later.

I regret to inform you that the pawns and stooges that contributed to the plots and scams of the last 6 years are what will ultimately lead to the truth. Demand to de- classify MS.Sibel Edmonds testimony. It will rock your world.

Tenet and McLaughlin knew what the administration wanted to hear.
The CIA partially went with the administration's pressures on iraqi WMD in order to position themselves better for denying an al qaeda/iraq connection.
The blame lies at the administration's door for not having a sound policy making process. But who needs that when your mind's already made up to make war?