“Before the [March 2003 Iraq] invasion, [Iraqi informant] Curveball had become the CIA’s most valuable source on Iraq’s fictitious chemical and biological weapons programme, a man who underscored the White House’s push for war through a litany of lies that later claimed the careers of the former secretary of state Colin Powell, and CIA chief George Tenet. Both were forced to admit they had gone to war partly on the word of a collaborator whom no American agency had even debriefed until one year after Baghdad fell.”
– Martin Chulov, “Iraqis to Mark US Street Exit with Holiday,” The Guardian, June 29, 2009