Slate's Fred Kaplan says that Senate Democrats should keep pushing for the release of the intelligence synopsis the CIA provided to President Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war:

If all George W. Bush knew about the Iraqi threat was gleaned from a one-page summary that stated the case for WMD—and that did not even acknowledge the existence of a case for skepticism—that's important to know. It's important for citizens who want some insight on why we went to war. And it's important for the president, who may decide to read a longer document the next time there's trouble.

While I'm often sympathetic to the executive privilege argument the Bushies are putting forward to defend their decision to withhold the summary, Kaplan's got a strong case here. [A slam dunk? -- ed. Boy, sometimes I wonder whether you're really a nice guy....] There's just no way to get to the bottom of all this without that one-pager, and, in this instance, the public's right to know (not to mention the Congress' responsibility to oversee) clearly trumps any EP argument the administration might make.

Besides, President Bush is the world's most famous evangelical Christian. How can he not know that the truth will set him free?

UPDATE: Matthew Yglesias corrects a Kaplan error.

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