US Relied On Drunken Liar To Justify War

An alcoholic cousin of an aide to Ahmed Chalabi has emerged as the key source in the US rationale for going to war in Iraq. According to a US presidential commission looking into pre-war intelligence failures, the basis for pivotal intelligence on Iraq’s alleged biological weapons programmes and fleet of mobile labs was a spy described as crazy by his intelligence handlers and a congenital liar by his friends. I have to wonder how this guy missed a career in politics — via Warren Ellis