Tierney is also the only Western expert on the "Tikriti dialect." So he claims.
The tapes were interesting enough without his "unique" spins.
It makes him sound like a weirdo or kook and casts doubt on him and the case he wants to make.
"The tapes were interesting enough without his "unique" spins."
Exactly. The tapes are hard evidence of conversations of Saddam, that he discussed these things. I dont care who, how or why they become public. As long as they do, and I want to see more. And If I were the left and had bet the farm on Saddam being "contained" I would be really really nervous about that pile of data yet to be gone through.