Those pesky nonexistent Iraq WMD surface again

"Apparently Saddam had the last laugh and donated his secret stockpile to benefit Iran's nuclear weapons program. With a little technical advice from Beijing, Syria is now enriching the uranium, Iran is making the missiles, North Korea is testing the warheads, and the White House is hiding its head in the sand."
Here is an item that will be featured at the Intelligence Summit, to be held March 4-7 in St. Petersburg, Florida.* The quotes are from John Loftus, former US federal prosecutor and President of the Intelligence Summit nonprofit educational organization:

Worst intelligence failure since 9/11
[...] "Everybody was a little bit right about WMD, and everybody was a little bit wrong." Saddam may not have had any chemical or biological WMD left on the eve of war, but newly discovered intelligence documents confirm that Saddam did possess extremely active WMD programs for nuclear weapons development during 2002-2003. Saddam constructed four incredibly expensive underwater nuclear storage and production facilities under the Euphrates river during the last six months of 2002.

After the invasion a few months later, Iraqi informants who had worked on the sites led ISG agents to all four plant locations. Apparently as a result of their inspections, the ISG agents were exposed to radiation leaks, as noted on their medical files.

However, word of the WMD discovery never reached Washington. CIA investigators now believe that the most important intelligence discovery of the entire war was simply lost when a computer data base was inadvertently erased in the rush to evacuate American troops from Saudi Arabia.

By the time the White House discovered the computer blunder four years later, the contents of all four WMD plants had been systematically looted and shipped to Syria."

Loftus added, "The GOP is trying to bury the entire Iraqi nuclear looting story to avoid questions from the new Democratic Congress. One would think national security should be a bit more important than political embarrassment.

[US] satellites now confirm that Syria is secretly running advanced P-2 centrifuges. Apparently Saddam had the last laugh and donated his secret stockpile to benefit Iran's nuclear weapons program. With a little technical advice from Beijing, Syria is now enriching the uranium, Iran is making the missiles, North Korea is testing the warheads, and the White House is hiding its head in the sand."

Now where oh where was John Negroponte, our trusty Director of National Intelligence, in all this? Tune in tomorrow.

* See today's earlier Pundita post for another item.