Curveball?

The irony of it. Curveball faked 'em right out of their jocks. Reuters (03.31.05):

"In building its case for the Iraq war, the Bush administration relied on bogus intelligence from a mysterious Iraqi chemical engineer code-named 'Curveball,' whose dramatic tips about mobile germ labs made their way to top policymakers with little vetting. In its final report issued on Thursday, the presidential commission that investigated intelligence failures in Iraq cast Curveball as the 'pivotal' source behind the intelligence community's escalating warnings about Iraq's biological weapons programs before the invasion. Despite Curveball's mysterious background and internal doubts about his reliability, his assertions appeared in more than 100 government reports and shaped then-Secretary of State Colin Powell's February 2003 address to the United Nations detailing Iraq's weapons programs. Only in May 2004, more than a year after the invasion, did the CIA formally deem Curveball's reporting 'fabricated'." Source 'Curveball' Blamed in Intelligence Failure

What a bunch of dorks. Wonder how much they paid "Curveball"? Wonder where "Curveball" is living now?