Operation Mass Appeal: M16, the British intelligence agency, now admits that it ran a covert operation to plant stories in the media overstating Saddam Hussein's alleged WMDs. The Sunday Times reports: "The admission followed claims by Scott Ritter, a former US Marine who led 14 inspection missions in Iraq, that MI6 had recruited him in 1997 to help with the propaganda effort. He described meetings where the senior officer and at least two other MI6 staff had discussed ways to manipulate intelligence material." When will such a story emerge in the US, I wonder.