Ryan Dunn

Ryan Dunn is a political science professor who writes and studies how nations like the United States make the decision to go to war.

It has been 10 long years since "Shock and Awe" – the opening bombardment of Baghdad – lit up the skies above the Tigris. A decade later, we know far more about the case the Bush administration made to the world to justify its war of choice to overthrow Saddam Hussein. US Senate reports have catalogued the extent to which intelligence was misused to mislead the public. Murray Waas may well turn out to be this generation’s Bob Woodward. His scoops in the Plame case have on occasion driven the investigation itself in new directions.

In the National Journal, Waas reports that Bush neglected to share with congress intel from a rather significant briefing:

Ten days after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on the World Trade Center and Pentagon, President Bush was told in a highly classified briefing that the U.S. intelligence community had no evidence linking the Iraqi regime of Saddam Hussein to the attacks and that there was scant credible evidence that Iraq had collaborative ties with Al Qaeda.