Now you see it, now you don't!

Years of news stories do not provide evidence?

Late last week, Glenn Reynolds linked to this article by his former employer, Judge Gilbert S. Merritt of the Sixth Circuit Court of Appeals, described as "a lifelong Democrat and a man of unimpeachable integrity." Then yesterday, Instapundit offered plenty of links to stories about the connection between Osama bin Laden and Saddam Hussein. Particularly interesting were the old stories, documenting al Qaeda links from 1999.

This was shortly followed by this link -- to a huge pile of news stories documenting Osama bin Laden's Iraqi connections. Of course, most of the reports were before Bush was in the White House.

This morning, the Weekly Standard called the Instapundit "indispensable". The Standard goes on to report links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda going back to 1998.

What I want to know, what happened to all these old news stories? Was Saddam Hussein's slate wiped clean once Bush was elected? For more than six months, I have been reading -- over and over again -- that there are "absolutely" no links or connections between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda.

Old news vanished.

I don't think the problem is so much a short public memory span, so much as it is one of the mainstream media simply not reporting news -- new stories are ignored while old stories disappear.

Either way, Glenn Reynolds is indispensable!