Apparently unembarassed by the spectacle of Vice President Cheney’s aides sending coordinates of alleged weapons caches directly to David Kay, Rep. Pete Hoekstra is still looking for the non-existent Iraqi WMDs that have become his white whale:

House Intelligence Committee chairman Rep. Peter Hoekstra is still pressing U.S. intelligence agencies to look for possible weapons of mass destruction in Iraq — even though intelligence officials say further work is unlikely to reveal anything new about Saddam’s WMD programs.

In recent weeks, congressional and intelligence sources say, Hoekstra has prodded the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency to follow up on new leads about possible WMD sites in the country. One intelligence official, who asked not to be identified because of political sensitivities, said the agencies have devoted “hundreds of man hours” to the hunt.