Opinion

The passing of a truth-teller

Bob Drogin, a former national security reporter and editor at the Los Angeles Times, is the author of “Curveball: Spies, Lies, and the Con Man Who Caused a War.”

On Jan. 28, 2004, David Kay sat alone at a polished table in a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing room and publicly admitted what no U.S. official previously had said — that America had gone to war in Iraq based on egregiously bad intelligence.