For weeks, the Bush administration has been promising to reveal what it knows about Iran's role in the conflict in Iraq, ever since the president's State of the Union address dramatically raised the stakes. The White House has asserted, without evidence, that Iran is providing weapons and other assistance to the people in Iraq killing U.S. troops, even though nearly all of the U.S. casualties in Iraq are caused by military actions by the Sunni-led Iraqi resistance, not the Iranian-allied Shiites (who, after all, are mostly America's allies, too).

Now comes Steve Hadley, the national security adviser and semi-neocon, to announce that the plan to reveal the secrets about Iran is once again being postponed. Why? Because the intelligence was, well, exaggerated. "The truth is, quite frankly, we thought the briefing overstated [Iran's role]," said Hadley. "We sent it back to get it narrowed and focused on the facts." We're waiting.