Feb. 4 (Bloomberg) -- Remember the debate about Iraq and
weapons of mass destruction? It’s back for an encore, thanks to
Senator Richard Durbin of Illinois, who remarked at a hearing
recently that whatever went wrong in the Obama administration’s
handling of the Benghazi disaster, it wasn’t as bad as the Bush
administration’s insistence that those weapons existed.
The blogosphere swiftly picked up the refrain, and so, once
more, we have been treated to angry denunciation of the supposed
cover-up of the true intelligence about Iraq’s weapons programs.
A bracing challenge to this view is provided by “The Art of
Betrayal,” Gordon Corera’s enthralling history of Britain’s
Secret Intelligence Service, popularly known as MI6.
