Blame Israel?

Jane's Intelligence Digest is reporting that Israel's Knesset is setting up its own internal investigation on whether that country's intelligence services "deliberately overstated Saddam Hussein's military capabilities."

Although many of those calling for an investigation are doing so to identify weak points in Israel's typically strong intelligence apparatus, there are some critics who are interested in just what type of relationship Israel had with the Feith-led Office of Special Plans.

As I've mentioned previously, two prominent Israelis -- Yossi Sarid, a member of the Israeli Foreign Affairs and defense Committee, and Brig. Gen. Shlomo Brom, a former Israeli intelligence officer -- have already raised troubling questions about how Israeli intelligence funneled hawks in the Bush administration the information needed to scare the American people into signing off on the attack.

Update: Ed Blanche, writing in the Daily Star of Beirut, talks about the implications of this investigation into Israeli intelligence.