Senator Carl Levin, the top Democrat on the Senate Armed Services Committee, has publicly challenged the CIA's handling of information about alleged weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. "Why did the CIA say that they had provided detailed information to the UN inspectors on all of the high and medium suspect sites with the UN, when they had not?" Levin asked. "Did the CIA act in this way in order not to undermine administration policy? Was there another explanation for this? ...

The Roman philosopher Marcus Aurelius once wrote, "The opinion of 10,000 men is of no value if none of them knows anything about the subject." The editorial board of the Des Moines Register writes, "That is the quote that comes to mind now that a new poll reveals many Americans are misinformed about Iraq." The fact that Americans don't know the truth about the basics is "downright scary.

"At the request of Congress, the State Department is launching an inquiry into its campaign to polish America's image in Muslim countries over the past two years," PR Week writes.