Bush’s Self-Appointed Intel Panel

Bush’s newly-announced panel of second-rate experts to look into the issue of bad Iraq inteligence is like investigating the gun industry after a convenience store robbery turns lethal: it misses the point. Intelligence agencies didn’t “hype” the Iraq threat; the administration misrepresented their intelligence to do so.

What’s really needed here is a Watergate-style special prosecutor with full powers to subpoena anyone and anything he wants to investigate how and why Bush Administration warmongers lied about Iraq’s fictional weapons of mass destruction to stampede an initially reluctant American public into an unwinnable, unending war in which more than 500 Americans have been killed and more than 3000 wounded.

Ken Starr, call your office.