Today’s NYT Corrections indicates the source of its three false stories connecting Chalabi’s INC to an informer known as “Curveball” was an unnamed CIA official.

Woven throughout the Wilson story are lies by unnamed CIA officials who backed up his nonsense.(Indeed,a careful reading of the Novak piece on Plame indicates that the person who disclosed her position in the agency was just such a shadowy figure.)

I’m of the belief that Wilson’s lies and intel failures are not the big story here. The big story is an agency which is fighting tooth and nail to destroy this Administration and which has gone utterly beserk. The bigger story is why?

I used to think the motive was just to cover their ass–Now I wonder if some are such Arabists they want to see the President fail.