It has been two days since besieged intelligence expert John Loftus released controversial audio tapes of meetings between Saddam Hussein and some of Iraq’s upper- level leadership. Never mind Loftus’ reliability — the authenticity of the tapes is a matter seperate from whether or not Loftus himself should be taken seriously.
The tapes, while authentic, don’t appear to include a “smoking gun” that conclusively proves Saddam Hussein hid WMDs in the run-up to Operation Iraqi Freedom, but they do provide direct evidence that he was engaged in hiding aspects of his WMD programs from UN weapons inspectors.