More on IAEA

Via Power Line, Cliff May blogs at The Corner that a government source tells him:

"The Iraqi explosives story is a fraud. These weapons were not there when US troops went to this site in 2003. The IAEA and its head, the anti-American Mohammed El Baradei, leaked a false letter on this issue to the media to embarrass the Bush administration. The US is trying to deny El Baradei a second term and we have been on his case for missing the Libyan nuclear weapons program and for weakness on the Iranian nuclear weapons program."

I mentioned ElBaradei's hostility to the US below, along with his assurance to the Security Council that continued sanctions would have kept Saddam in his place. He has an axe to grind, and he found willing allies at the NYT and CBS News.