It just gets worse and worse

Ten days after 9/11:

One of the more intriguing things that Bush was told during the briefing was that the few credible reports of contacts between Iraq and Al Qaeda involved attempts by Saddam Hussein to monitor the terrorist group. Saddam viewed Al Qaeda as well as other theocratic radical Islamist organizations as a potential threat to his secular regime.

I guess the Bush administration wasn't paying their informants enough at that point to get what it wanted to hear.

Tip: Mixter's Mix