Q&A,

I like to watch a show on C-SPAN Sunday nights called Q&A. I think it is one of the truest interview shows out there. Most interview shows are more conversations between the interviewer and the interviewee. Q&A however focuses primarily on the interviewee. Of course since it is C-SPAN it is mostly political type people, but they do a lot of people outside of Washington, which is nice. Another part of the show that I like is that it deals more with the person's insight then just stances on issues. I like this because it removes a lot of the partisanship from the debate and I don't change the channel in disgust when they are interviewing republicans. As a matter of fact some of the most interesting interviews I have seen were with republicans.

Anyway I was watching last Sunday and they were interviewing Lt. Col. Karen Kwiatkowski about her role in the movie Why We Fight. There is more on this interview over at Kos. She mentioned Curveball a couple of times in her interview often followed by a laugh. I know who Curveball is, but started wondering how many other people do. So here is what you should know about Curveball;

First,

"Curveball" would be the attributed source of pivotal information concerning weapons of mass destruction leading up to the 2003 Invasion of Iraq.

Basically he was the guy that gave them the information about mobile chemical labs.

The CIA claimed that it did not have "direct access" to Curveball, and that the mysterious informant instead communicated to Germany's intelligence service, which relayed the information to the United States Defense Intelligence Agency

Ok that is fine, but

He was described by German intelligence as an individual not living in Iraq and as an "out of control" and crazy alcoholic.

and

They found among other things that he placed last in his university class when he had claimed to place first, and that he had been jailed for embezzlement before fleeing to Germany.

There is some talk that the administration didn't know he wasn't creditable and other people say they did. You can go to the site to read more on this if you want. My point is if you are going to go to war, not knowing a source isn't creditable is a really bad excuse.

Here is another story I found. I am sure you can find much more by doing a search if you are interested.

I just think that this is something everyone should know.