Remember Dan Rather’s interview with Saddam Hussein before the start of the war in Iraq? Rather told reporters he practiced all his questions while standing in front of a mirror in his hotel room.
But in a new book, “Hide and Seek: The Search for Truth in Iraq,” author Charles Duelfer notes that Saddam had Baghdad so heavily bugged that he undoubtedly heard every word of Rather’s rehearsal.
“It is simply surprising,” observed Duelfer, “that someone as worldly as Dan Rather would not assume his room was bugged in one of the most security-conscious regimes on the planet.”
Surprising that Rather could be stupid? If you believe that, I have some phony National Guard documents I’d like to sell you.
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