The Times of London is running a story on a speech that George H.W. Bush (Bush the Elder) gave at Tufts University recently. In it, he seems to be critical of the unilateralism of his son's foreign policy. This is extraordinary, since the Bushes have made a point of emphasizing that Bush the Elder does not interfere with the presidency of Bush the Younger. Both the Times and the Washington Post interpret it as a deliberate message to Bush the Younger.

An entry a few days ago referred to documents that the US had provided to the IAEA about Iraq's nuclear weapons program and which turned out to be fake. According to the Washington Post, the FBI is now investigating the matter, although they are not really sure they have jurisdiction. The working theory is that a third country that has an interest in promoting a US war in Iraq faked the documents and provided them to the US as genuine. The only two such countries I can think of with such an interest are Iran and Israel.

When the story first broke, I speculated as to whether the US intelligence agencies were so sloppy as to get taken in by the forgeries or knew they were fake and provided them anyway. It seems it was the latter; the article says the CIA had questions about the accuracy of the documents and so did not deem them credible enough to include in its own file on the Iraqi nuclear program.