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Can’t tell the truth about anything:

The Defense Intelligence Agency said Thursday the 500 munitions collected over the last three years in Iraq with mustard and sarin gas are 20 years old.

DIA Director Lt. Gen. Michael Maples told the House Armed Services Committee the shells were manufactured prior to the 1991 Persian Gulf war, and a DIA report on them — released a week ago by Republicans Sen. Rick Santorum of Pennyslvania, chairman of the Senate Republican Conference, and Michigan Rep. Peter Hoekstra, chairman of the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence — was written to provide troops in Iraq with force protection information in case they came across them in the field.

Update at 7:30 pm by Sarabeth

But when they start a lie, they can sure keep it going a long long time:

Meanwhile, the chairman of the House of Representatives Intelligence Committee, Michigan Republican Rep. Peter Hoekstra, wrote to U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte accusing intelligence officials of downplaying the significance of the finds.

Hoekstra said intelligence officials at a June 21 press briefing told journalists the weapons predated the 1991 Gulf War, were too degraded to be used as originally intended and posed no threat to U.S. forces deployed in the region during the run-up to the 2003 invasion.

“I am very disappointed by the inaccurate, incomplete, and occasionally misleading comments made by the briefers,” Hoekstra said in the letter.