Rick Cook wrote in
nk.net:

Perhaps more to the point -- it ignores the testimony of Saddam's
son-in-law, as backed up by the mass of stuff the Iraqis claimed to
have found on his chicken farm.

All the defectors were eager to tell us what they wanted us to hear, as
were most of the Iraqi expats. Look at the rise and fall of Ahmed Chalabi
as a prime example.