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Tyler Drumheller, who appeared on 60 Minutes in March and claimed that he had warned the administration that all their WMD information was wrong. In the additional views section Senators Pat Roberts , Orrin Hatch , and Saxby Chambliss stated that after watching 60 Minutes they were concerned they had missed something, so they went and look another look at the information. Their report directly contradicts Drumheller's . In the report they essentially called him a liar.

Also Tom Joscelyn has an excellent article over at the Weekly Standard's site on information the Senate Intelligence Committee managed to overlook in its bizarre haste to find no Iraq-Qaeda ties.Rules of Evidence The Senate report on Iraq and al Qaeda ignores everything which gets in the way of its conclusions. by Thomas Joscelyn

A cursory examination of Zarqawi's cell in Iraq reveals that many of his top operatives were once Saddam's military and intelligence officers.

neither Abu Zubaydah's nor Al-Masari's statements are given any weight by the committee. Nor did they bother to examine who it was, exactly, that Zarqawi was working with in Iraq. Not that any of this matters, of course. This report was never really about investigating the relationship between Saddam's regime and al Qaeda. http://www.weeklystandard.com/Content/Public/Articles/000/000/012/670bsucx.asp

A cursory examination of Zarqawi's cell in Iraq reveals that many of his top operatives were once Saddam's military and intelligence officers.

Invading Iraq and disbanding their military may have been a factor there. I don't know about you, but if the Soviets had invaded, and the only one that was resisting him locally was a religious/militant David Khoresh type, I'd drink the kool aid, get a gun, and praise Jesus until we had kicked them back to Moscow. Politics make strange bedfellows.