In case you missed it, former analyst Ray McGovern directly challenged Donald Rumsfeld on whether or not he misled the United States to lead us into war. This was during one of those theoretically "friendly audience" events.
You can read some interview extracts with him from CNN here.
MCGOVERN: Well, you know, she [a protester] talked about lies. And I get very upset when Donald Rumsfeld shakes his head and says, "Lies, gosh, lies. I hate it when somebody says that our president would tell lies."
Of course, she hadn't said the president; she said Rumsfeld. But he said that lies are fundamentally destructive of the trust, without which government cannot work.
And that's true. And I found myself really agreeing with that.
ZAHN: Essentially, what he told you is: I never said exactly where the weapons of mass destruction were. I was referring to, we had a pretty darn good idea where the sites were. ... Do you buy what he said today?
MCGOVERN: His words [in 2003] were: "We know where -- where the WMD are. They're near Tikrit and Baghdad, and north, south, east, and west of there." That's a direct quote.
And when he used that wonderful non sequitur by looking at the uniformed personnel in the front row and saying: "Well, they went in with protective gear; they certainly thought there were weapons of mass destruction there." Well, my goodness, of course, they did. Because you, Donald Rumsfeld, told them that they were there.
The best coverage has been on Anderson Cooper 360, where they factchecked at least two of the things Rumsfeld asserted he had not said -- that there was bulletproof evidence of ties between Saddam Hussein and the WTC and Pentagon attacks, and that we knew exactly where the WMD facilities were. They have video of Rumsfeld saying the latter, and the direct cite for the former.
It's good to see him being called on this. His willful malfeasance is killing our people daily.