IT WAS REFRESHING to read that House Intelligence Committee Chairman Peter Hoekstra still holds out hope that the conventional wisdom about Saddam’s WMD programs is wrong. Given the tremendous reservoir of data on such programs that is still largely untapped we should only consider closing the book on such an important issue is when we have exhausted all possible options.

The two biggest concerns about sifting through this mountain of data center around complexity and time. Namely: How is it possible to make sense out of what is essentially an unruly and only loosely cataloged mass of data? And, how long would such a project take? Academia provides at least a start to answering these questions.

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