THE IRAQ/AL QAEDA SPIN: Senator Carl Levin insists there is no connection between Iraq and Al Qaeda.

Thomas Joscelyn writes:

The senator now pretends that the CIA and other intelligence outfits had reached a rock-solid conclusion that there was no noteworthy relationship between Iraq and al Qaeda in 2002, but Feith's shop improperly pressed on. The Post summarized the inspector general's report as saying: " the CIA had concluded in June 2002 that there were few substantiated contacts between al-Qaeda operatives and Iraqi officials and had said that it lacked evidence of a long-term relationship like the ones Iraq had forged with other terrorist groups."

This is simply revisionist history at its worst.

Read the whole thing.
[Hat tip: The Corner]

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