the second intelligence report

Senate Select Intelligence Committee has released its second report on 9/11 and Iraq related issues.

Better late than never.

Senator Whitehouse is pissed off - he is a pretty good orator also

Another link, because linking is an inherent good.

Here is a source for the text files

h/t emptywheel

and here

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