"One hallucination begets others. "

Good point, now let's start with who is taking drugs.

"Seymour Hersh's hallucinated nuclear attack on Iran would get a lot less play had the Bush administration not hallucinated a wide assortment of WMD as their bait to get support for an invasion of Iraq."

Well, part of the problem could have Clinton's administration with all it's talk about WMD [including what Senator Kennedy said on the matter]. Also the Clinton administration determination that US policy should be to change Saddam's Iraqi regime might have had some effect. I think one hallucination begets others, could explain much of the CIA's problems.