One of the most easily understood  reports about Saddam's connection to 9/11 was the report from Czech intelligence that Atta met in Prague  with Iraqi intelligence prior to the 9/11 attack.   This incident has been consistently misreported by almost everyone but Edward Jay Epstein who in today's Opinion Journal fills in the interstices of his previous reporting. His report confirms that Czech intelligence thinks the meeting did take place; that someone in U.S. intelligence leaked the information to the AP, making it impossible to complete the investigation. Finally, he reports that Al—Ani, the Iraqi intel officer Atta reportedly met with was captured in Iraq, is in our custody and we have not properly interrogated him.   And we are wasting yet more time on the non—outing of a non—undercover agent? The proximate cause for BIS interest in al—Ani was a sensational revelation of Jabir Salim, the Iraqi consul who defected in Prague in...(Read Full Post)