In case you haven't checked in yet I want to tell you about something we've got going on this week at TPMCafe. You may remember 'Curveball' from the annals of Iraq WMD bamboozlement. He was the Iraqi refugee who told the Germans a bunch of baloney about alleged Iraqi WMD programs in order to get asylum and ended up providing much of the crucial 'intelligence' that was the basis for the invasion of Iraq. If you're familiar with the story you know there were numerous overlooked red flags suggesting that Curveball was full of it. But that didn't stop his story from being the basis of those now endlessly embarrassing illustrations of Iraqi mobile chemical weapons labs that Colin Powell told the UN about just before the war.

Anyway, Bob Drogin writes about national security and intelligence issues for the Los Angeles Times. And he's got a new book out -- called Curveball, appropriately enough -- that tells the whole sordid, spy-thriller-esque tale of intrigue and ineptitude. And we've got him at TPMCafe Table for One this week blogging, discussing the book and answering your questions. Stop by ...