huh?: "There it is, the work product of an intelligence commission hand-picked by Bush for the specific purpose of proving him and his Administration incompetent, with the hope that this would exonerate him of outright deception.  Its leader was a former Reagan aide used as the back-channel contact to Khomeini during the 1980 election, in an episode that  may well prove to have been outright treason if the story is ever told.    Put it this way:    His connections to terrorism are far better documented than Saddam Hussein's. 

The sordid process which climaxed with a cake, a Bible, and an Iran-Contra connection had investigator Lawrence Walsh stating that the  first President Bush withheld information and made false statements about  his own part in this scandal.  Silberman was also waist-deep in slime during the smearing of Bill Clinton.

   

...

"Short version of their findings:

   

1. We weren't asked to look at the political use or misuse of intelligence.
2. Notwithstanding the fact that we didn't look for it, we're willing to say we didn't find it.

Bush responded to the report by urging the Senate to confirm John Negroponte, a known collaborator of the Contras, who were also clearly terrorists by even the strictest definition."

(Via Night Light.)