I've seen these type of articles before, usually described as a "bombshell," "shocking," and "redeeming." And the story then dies. "If true" is a good caveat. I suspect this phrase would have been considered unnecessary three years ago. The mere link to a CNSNews article was many times considered a link to veracity.

Both the source of this story, CNSNews, and a quote from Laurie Mylroie make the entire content suspect. The only other person referenced, Bruce Tefft, uses partial quotes; everyon else is anonymous. And the Bush Administration is unaware of this so-called bombshell.

Hmmm.

Why is Laurie suspect?

Laurie Mylroie's credibility is at the same level of Coulter and Malkin. She wouldn't know the truth, even though I'm sured it has magically appeared at her doorstep.

Why?

Who decided she lost her cred? I hope you're not basing part of that statement on that former CIA agent who actually approved of what she said/wrote in 2000 and then lo and behold, changed his mind in 2004ish.

Laurie Mylroie: Saddam-Al Qaeda conspiracy evangelist and author, and AEI darling.

From Disinfopedia (http://www.disinfopedia.org/wiki.phtml?title=Laurie_Mylroie):
Mylroie is the author of Study of Revenge: Saddam Hussein's Unfinished War Against America, a book published by the American Enterprise Institute in 2000. It pushes her theory that Iraq was behind the 1993 World Trade Center bombing. According to writer Peter Bergen, Mylroie's theory was the basis for "the belief that Saddam posed an imminent threat to the United States," which "amounted to a theological conviction within the administration, a conviction successfully sold to the American public."

...Bergen comments, "Mylroie became enamored of her theory that Saddam was the mastermind of a vast anti-U.S. terrorist conspiracy in the face of virtually all evidence and expert opinion to the contrary. In what amounts to the discovery of a unified field theory of terrorism, Mylroie believes that Saddam was not only behind the '93 Trade Center attack, but also every anti-American terrorist incident of the past decade, from the bombings of U.S. embassies in Kenya and Tanzania to the leveling of the federal building in Oklahoma City to September 11 itself. She is, in short, a crackpot, which would not be significant if she were merely advising say, Lyndon LaRouche. But her neocon friends who went on to run the war in Iraq believed her theories, bringing her on as a consultant at the Pentagon, and they seem to continue to entertain her eccentric belief that Saddam is the fount of the entire shadow war against America."

There's more debunking there and at other sources.

Hmmm. This just sort of petered away.