Hold on just a minute.

We don't know what those members of Congress were told in September of '02. We don't know how they reacted. They can't tell us, so we're left with the report of "two officials present."

That would be two executive branch officials. Executive branch officials entrusted with briefing Congress, including Democratic members of Congress, on highly sensitive, and potentially politically charged, operations.

Ya' think mayby those officials would have been pretty thoroughly politically vetted before that assignment? Ya' think maybe they'd have an axe to grind, or a case to make now? A motive, perhaps, beyond the public's right to know?

It just might be worth thinking about before we all jump off the deep end.