Pre-Iraq war: Super-genius defector with gold-standard intelligence about Iraq's WMD program, whose reports apparently formed the basis of Colin Powell's infamous UN WMD speech.
Post-Iraq war: A+ liar but an F- chemical engineering student who just wanted asylum in Germany and who had one hell of a talent for storytelling.
http://nahrain.com/d/news/07/11/05/nhr1105j.html
http://blogs.usatoday.com/ondeadline/2007/11/60-minutes-iden.html
― libcrypt, Monday, 5 November 2007 17:03 (eighteen years ago)
http://www.spitfirelist.com/f502.html
― Elvis Telecom, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:22 (eighteen years ago)
something I've increasingly come to believe about the classification system for intelligence - "top secret" just means "we can't corroborate this shit."
― El Tomboto, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:30 (eighteen years ago)
huh. i just finished reading State of Denial. had some interesting things to say on this subject iirc. like if the Bush admin wasn't a giant clusterfuck of mental midgets hording information/power from one another curveball would never have been taken seriously in the first place.
― The Cursed Return of the Dastardly Thermo Thinwall, Monday, 5 November 2007 18:57 (eighteen years ago)
Now an ADMITTED liar!
http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/chatter/2011/02/curveball.html
― kind of shrill and very self-righteous (Dr Morbius), Saturday, 19 February 2011 02:14 (fourteen years ago)