My favorite from that thread:

It turned out years later that the intelligence reports used by both the UK and US to invade Iraq were not only bogus, but many of them were sources literally just explaining a scene from the hit movie The Rock and pretending they were real.

This twitter thread really encapsulates how batshit crazy the early 00’s were: https://twitter.com/mugrimm/status/1171794187609657345

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