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If I'm wrong, and it wouldn't be the first time, this is an espionage coup of the first order on the part of the Russians. Who was their source? Information as detailed as they are saying it is would be known only to a few, so it shouldn't be difficult to narrow it down. Our counter-intel people should be all over this.

I would expect arrest and prosecution, normally. At the least we should see some kind of fallout for a security breach this serious, even potentially catastrophic in wartime. They should be polygraphing everyone and his dog.

If there is no arrest, no massive investigation, then I will suspect that the information was given to the ambassador purposely, with the intention that it be delivered to Saddam, in order to convince him that we were indeed coming for him. In the last days before the war, an effort was made to convince him to give it up, and for him and his sons to depart the country. Russia was no doubt our intermediary in those discussions.

We've all seen reports that Saddam right up the end thought we wouldn't actually invade.

I would be curious how much of this information was really secret. Anyone carefully combing the press would know a lot, and they may have given him detailed information, but detailed information that had somehow already made it into the press, that they might assume Saddam would know already.

If my crazy theory is crazy, and this is a real security breach, though, then someone should clearly hang for this.

Since I've already gone this far, bear with me a little longer. We've all seen stories that the Russians convinced Saddam to move his WMD across the border into Syria. They, supposedly, sent their own agents to oversee the evacuation of this material.

This means that these weapons were not available to Saddam to use against our troops.

Saddam's own generals believed they had chemical weapons right up to the end. But they didn't; the Russians (according to reports) had moved them out of the country.

We tend to see this as Russian perfidy, and it may be. It may also be Bush's greatest coup of the war, getting these weapons away from Saddam before our troops entered the theater, and doing it right under Saddam's nose.

If this is true, then Bush's relationship with Putin is a bit more complex than we realize.

If I'm wrong, then again, CIA is incompetent and missed the WMD operation, and we've got a mole in Central Command at the very highest level. In CIA, I'd believe it. In Central Command, a little harder to believe.