November 23, 2003

A Report from Prague

You could say New Media (broadly defined) was beating the pants off Old Media on the al-Qaeda/Iraq connection if the latter was even bothering to cover it. No big newspapers or news magazines have followed up on The Weekly Standard's report by Stephen Hayes on a Defense War Department memo to the Senate Intelligence Committee. Now, Edward Jay Epstein of Slate has come back from the Czech Republic after talking to people in Czech intelligence. He doesn't prove Atta ever met an Iraqi intelligence officer. What Epstein does do is give enough information to make an al-Qaeda/Iraq connection to Sep. 11 a good possiblity. In order to figure this out, the FBI has to stop being control freaks and work with the Czechs to connect all the dots. They are our allies last time I checked (no pun intended).

"Prague Revisited" [via Blaster's Blog]