So David Kay is quitting. The Mr. Magoo of the Iraq Survey Group, who last July stood in front of two trailers on national TV and declared them mobile weapons labs, when they weren't, is giving up the search for WMD.
In October he issued an interim report saying no weapons had yet been found, but that it would take "six to nine months" to determine if Iraq posessed WMD. It's apparently taken only three months, which, to his credit, is significantly ahead of schedule.
Additional credit should go to the Post's Dana Priest and Walter Pincus for providing some deadpan humor to the news:
Kay requested the change for personal and family reasons, officials said. When he accepted the job in June, they said, he expected to quickly find the expansive evidence that the administration had claimed as its primary reason for going to war.posted by dack
This rather significant and damning development was barely mentioned at all by CNN, as a two-sentence bullet tacked on to the bottom of this story. It's apparently less important than the article's main points, such as the fact that there's a new photo of Saddam Hussein with a haircut.
What Liberal Media indeed?
That's not fair. Mr. Magoo had a severe visual impairment. To my knowledge, Kay's eyes work just fine.
Posted by: Jake on December 19, 2003 10:06 AM