While the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence [3] drags its feet on discovering how the White House [4] sold the Iraq war, journalist James Bamford has written a major expose on one of the key players: John Rendon [5]. In his Rolling Stone story "The Man Who Sold the War," Bamford traces the development of Rendon and his firm The Rendon Group [6] (TRG) from Democratic Party organizer to Kuwaiti liberator [7] to secretive Pentagon [8] propagandist-for-hire. In a rare interview, Rendon "boasted openly" to Bamford of "the sweep and importance of his firm's efforts as a for-profit spy." One example of TRG's work is the story of Iraqi exile Adnan Ihsan Saeed al-Haideri [9], who claimed Saddam Hussein had tons of biological, chemical and nuclear weapons. The fact that al-Haideri failed CIA polygraph tests didn't stop TRG from giving Judith Miller [10] the print exclusive interview. "Her front-page story, which hit the stands on December 20th, 2001, was exactly the kind of exposure Rendon had been hired to provide," Bamford writes.