The ex-CIA official identified as the source of information advisor Sidney Blumenthal gave to former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton about Libya and the Benghazi attack is the same official who made highly questionable claims regarding what he knew about a key source on Iraq weapons of mass destruction who turned out to be wrong.

A review by Secrets of the 2007 memoir from former CIA Director George Tenet found several pages that make clear Tyler Drumheller was not a reliable source on important matters like Iraq WMD and in describing his role in the affair to Congress.