In the annals of CIA sub­terfuge, this is a weird one: A spe­cial ops unit pitched the idea of try­ing to dis­credit Sad­dam Hus­sein as a gay pedophile before the 2003 inva­sion, reports the Wash­ing­ton Post. The idea was to cre­ate a phony home video pur­port­ing to show Sad­dam hav­ing sex with a teenage boy. Supe­ri­ors even­tu­ally shot it down, though the unit did make a fake...