Not defending the cia, but the yellow cake thing was not a lie of commission (arguably a lie of omission): it was very much true in the strictest senses - hussein did have yellow cake and we did not know for sure where it was and he blocked inspectors that he was supposed to let in. but utterly overblown and misrepresented: yellow cake is not that dangerous by itself, hussein had stopped trying to enrich it - and we probably knew that - and it turned out to be exactly where it was last known to be to be under the UN inspections regime.
As they say, technically correct, the best kind of correct.
As they say, technically correct, the best kind of correct.