Two Other Key Stories from Blah3

There's the story about the flipping FORTUNE the Department of Homeland (in)Security has spent coming up with a tiny ID card plus this on the Bushies spinning WMD non-entities:

The Bush administration just continues to cement its reputation as the biggest bunch of craven liars ever. It's not like we didn't know it before, but here's yet another story that shows their belief that they can create "new realities" is more important than the actual facts. Former UN weapons inspector Ron Barton has a new book out detailing the background behind Bush's idiotic claim that "we found the WMDs" in a couple of supposed mobile bioweapons labs:

A year after Bush administration claims about Iraqi "bioweapons trailers" were discredited by American experts, U.S. officials were still suppressing the findings, says a senior member of the CIA-led Iraq inspection team. [....]

In April 2003,...two unusually equipped trailers were found in Iraq and the CIA declared they were the mobile biolabs described by the defector ["Curveball"].

This story quickly fell apart behind the scenes, it has since emerged. Testing the equipment in early May 2003, U.S. experts found no traces of biological agents, and later that month the U.S. fact-finders filed their negative report from Baghdad.

But on May 29, Bush assured Polish television: "We found the weapons of mass destruction. We found biological laboratories." Then national security adviser Condoleezza Rice and Secretary of State Colin Powell later made similar statements. As late as January 2004, Vice President Dick Cheney called the trailers "conclusive evidence" of Iraqi WMD, one of the reasons given for invading Iraq.

The experts' findings were classified, never to be released, The Washington Post reported last month. [....]