Well all have heard of Curveball by now. 

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 Rafid Ahmed Alwan defected from Iraq in 1999, claiming that he had worked as a chemical engineer at a plant that manufactured mobile biological weapon laboratories as part of an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program.^[1] Alwan's allegations were subsequently shown to be false by the Iraq Survey Group's final report published in 2004.

It was Colin Powell's darkest hour, but he would have went to war with Iraq without briefing the UN anyway. (Woodward's book "Plan of Attack" tells us that) ..BushCo used this fraud who wanted a green-card in Germany to fool the American people and bring the country into an immoral war with Iraq. 60 Minutes did a fine piece on him Sunday night that should be seen so we will be reminded that "intelligence" can always be manipulated---even after it's debunked by our own intelligence department.

CBS News:

Did Saddam Hussein have weapons of mass destruction? No, he did not. We've known that for some time now. So where did the intelligence come from that he was building up his arsenal? Fantastically, the most compelling part came from one obscure Iraqi defector who came in and out of history like a comet. His code name, ironically, was "Curve Ball" and his information became the pillar of the case Colin Powell made to the United Nations before the war. Who is Curve Ball and how did he fool the world's elite intelligence agencies?...read on

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