[dirtboy]

Even as the documents make clear Saddam's regime had given up banned weapons, they also attest to its continued secretiveness: A 1997 document from Iraqi intelligence instructed agencies to keep confidential files away from U.N. teams, and to remove "any forbidden equipment."

I would think this would be more significant and would merit the headline and the lead, since it answers the question why the world didn't believe Saddam - because of his own actions to hide what he was up to.

But it was instead buried in the article. Classic MSM methodology.

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Deserves repeating, remembering and passing on to FNC et al:

Even as the documents make clear Saddam's regime had given up banned weapons, they also attest to its continued secretiveness: A 1997 document from Iraqi intelligence instructed agencies to keep confidential files away from U.N. teams, and to remove "any forbidden equipment."