The Suskind Allegation

The blogosphere is rumbling about a new book by Pulitzer prize-winning author Ron Suskind in which he alleges that the White House ordered the CIA to forge a document later used to justify the 2003 invasion of Iraq. If true, this action constitutes deliberate fraud in a way that cannot be dismissed as merely "bad intelligence." Both the White House and then-CIA Director George Tenet have denied the validity of the story, and even though it has long been suspected that outright fraud played a role in selling the invasion, this particular accusation is not without its problems. Still, it's definitely something to keep an eye on.