Where the WMDs Went

Great interview of former UNSCOM inspector Bill Tierney, in which, among other things, he explains how the Iraqis routinely ran off with incriminating documents under the noses of the inspection teams:

[Tierney says] “I…spotted various deception techniques that may not have been noticed in only one field, such as chemical or biological. For instance, the Iraqis would ask in very reasonable tones that questionable documents be set aside until the end of the day, when a discussion would determine what was truly of interest to UNSCOM. The chief inspector, not wanting to appear like a knuckle-dragging ogre, would agree. Instead of setting the documents on a table in a stack, the Iraqis would set them side to side, filling the entire table top, and would place the most explosive documents on the edge of the table. At some point they would flood the room with people, and in the confusion abscond with the revealing documents.”

Read the whole thing. (Found via the always-excellent Power Line.)