In general, one should not attribute to malice that which can be explained by incompetence. It may be just that those asshats were so intent on proving to the world that Saddam really, really meant to build nukes that they stuck all that evidence out there in Ted Stevens' tubes. And guess what, George? -- they've got them Internets in Iran, too...
Edited: The NYT article is up now, and sure enough:
"The campaign for the online archive was mounted by conservative publications and politicians, who argued that the nation’s spy agencies had failed adequately to analyze the 48,000 boxes of documents seized since the March 2003 invasion. With the public increasingly skeptical about the rationale and conduct of the war, the chairmen of the House and Senate intelligence committees told the administration that wide analysis and translation of the documents — most of them in Arabic — would reinvigorate the search for evidence that Mr. Hussein had resumed his unconventional arms programs in the years before the invasion. American search teams never found such evidence in Iraq.
The director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, had resisted setting up the Web site, which some intelligence officials felt implicitly raised questions about the competence and judgment of government analysts. But President Bush approved the site’s creation after Congressional Republicans proposed legislation to force the documents’ release."
http://www.nyt.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html