"A collection, an assemblage, a concatenation of fibs..."

Scorching Richard Cohen column which ran on Wednesday, in which he inveighs against Alberto Gonzalez (an "apparatchik" who "lacks the courage of his mendacity") and the administration for presenting a set of hastily cobbled fictions as facts:

The argument in favor of the National Security Agency intercepts is consistent with those that took us to war in Iraq. They are all a collection, an assemblage, a concatenation of fibs, exaggerations, misinterpretations, selected evidence, hype, false leads, vile suggestions, felonious deletions and the like, which marched us to Baghdad where we remain to this day.