Efforts to prop up a story about mobile weapons labs in Iraq continue, for a short time. This one is even more absurd than the story about aluminum tubes or the one about an Iraq-Niger uranium deal. Another future scandal also continues to develop around this time, leading eventually to the alleged destruction of CIA videotapes showing the torture of two prisoners detained in connection with the USS Cole bombing.
May 9-14, 2003:

 

May 9, 2003 -- Judge Leonie Brinkema, in the U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., asks whether the interrogations of detainees are being ...   more »