Was Saddam involved with terrorism?

Was Father Geoghan Catholic?

Instapundit links to this report that Russia notified the U.S. after 9/11 of intelligence indicating that Saddam was preparing attacks on the U.S.

Was this in the 9/11 Commission reports? Will it be?

Hugh Hewitt called yesterday for a new commission to review the 9/11 Commission. I'm sure it was tongue-in-cheek, because expecting any commission in Washington to play it straight down the middle is like leaving your dog to guard your hamburger.

Still, the politicization of the commission is only part of the scandal. The rest is a national press that is more interested in obfuscating the truth than in making it clear. The story two days ago about the commission's finding that there was no credible evidence that Saddam and Al Qaeda collaborated on the 9/11 attacks, includes the fact that there were ties between them. How else could bin Laden have contacted Saddam to ask for assistance? Saddam shrewdly recognized that Usama was not the type to be a junior partner to him and would probably turn on him like he did the Americans, and wisely didn't respond, but there was no doubt that there were channels of communication.

Update: The Wall Street Journal points out a number of nuggets that the rest of the press in its zeal to discredit the war in Iraq ignored.