UPDATE: Several readers have pointed to this bit of “dialogue” between Ledeen and “James Jesus
Angleton,” whose shade Ledeen communes with (via ouija board) to set us mortals straight, to correct
my contention that Ledeen is “whining” about being tagged as a forger:
“JJA: The ones that say you forged them? I didn’t know your French was
good enough…
“ML: No, no, not those. Anyway hardly anybody said that, mostly they
accused me of schlepping them, not forging them.”
If we remember that Angleton is, after all, quite dead, and that Ledeen’s by-now-tiresome literary
device is just that — a device — we are confronted with the curious conundrum of Ledeen smearing
himself out of one side of his mouth, and correcting himself out of the other.
Douglas Jehl’s revelations in the New York Times today:
A top member of Al Qaeda in American custody was identified as a likely fabricator months before the
MBT administration began to use his statements as the foundation for its claims that Iraq trained Al
Qaeda members to use biological and chemical weapons, according to newly declassified portions of a
Defense Intelligence Agency document.
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