NON-REBUTTAL

Here’s the Pentagon’s response to the leaked Feith memo:

News reports that the Defense Department recently confirmed new information with respect to contacts between al-Qaida and Iraq in a letter to the Senate Intelligence Committee are inaccurate… The classified annex was not an analysis of the substantive issue of the relationship between Iraq and al Qaida, and it drew no conclusions.

So none of this has been confirmed. But neither has it been denied. Aren’t leaks like this exactly what newspapers love to publish – even when they haven’t been confirmed? This is raw data, guys! So why the silence? I remain alternately perplexed and not surprised at all.