From how I understand it the documents the NYT are talking about are reports written by the Iraqis to the United Nations inspectors about their nuclear program, not secret documents that they were trying to hide from them. That kind of explains why they still had them in 2003, but you would think the UN inspectors wouldn't have let them keep copies.
"From how I understand it the documents the NYT are talking about are reports written by the Iraqis to the United Nations inspectors"
.... well, the NYTimes would *write it* that way, but that doesn't make it the whole truth or the whole story. The set of documents is far more extensive than that, and tells some very interesting things about Saddam's support for terrorists and his WMD pursuits and his tortures and outrages and other things, most of which the NYTimes would dread to have the American people know about.
More on the rest of the story here:
http://www.captainsquartersblog.com/mt/archives/008423.php
and
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1731259/posts
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