[I]f the CIA had done a simple Internet search on some of the terms used in the [Niger Yellowcake] letter, the agency would have quickly learned that it was a forgery.ABC article: Could a Google Search Have Helped Prevent the War in Iraq?
There are excuses quoted in the article for people who didn't Google this one item, but those excuses don't answer how other false information, such as the aluminum tube B.S. that Powell provided the UN, could have been found out the same way. Bloggers were finding it out.
I wouldn't lay it onto the CIA, because the CIA always has an agenda. But it's always been my contention that the members of Congress who supported the invasion of Iraq were derelict in their duty, and that if they were too busy themselves to keep up with internet information available at the time which was revealing all those lies the Administration was pushing leading up to the invasion, then they surely had an office boy who could have been doing it. (Except Mr. Foley, whose office boy was busy. But that doesn't excuse the Democrats.)
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