Can’t These People Read?

Washington Post reporter Walter Pincus must be driven to distraction today. It seems that no one in the city read his July 13, 2004 story about Curveball.

This morning’s CNN website reports the following:

Of particular interest is information that emerged in last week's report about how doubts were handled regarding a leading source on Saddam Hussein's alleged mobile biological weapons labs -- an Iraqi scientist who defected to Germany, codenamed "Curveball."

Porter Goss, who became CIA director last September, has instructed officials to determine what happened and why the details did not come to light earlier, said his spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise.

"It was an unhappy surprise to the director that his first understanding of this issue was when he first read" the commission's report, Millerwise said Wednesday.

Senate Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, also acknowledged President Bush's intelligence commission had details that did not emerge during his committee's yearlong investigation into the Iraq assessments, released last July.

Curious. It is very curious. Last July the Capital city’s major newspaper reported that some one in administration suppressed doubts about the existence of mobile biological weapons production facilities. Yet no one, including the Associated press, the new director of the CIA, and the Chair of the Senate Intelligence Committee remembers reading the story.

Am I missing something?