Former Pentagon investigator Dave Gaubatz alleges he found hidden WMD sites in 2003, but that his reports were ignored and then destroyed as part of a cover-up by the CIA, Department of Defense, and Bush administration. This allowed a group of Russians, Iraqis and Syrians to dig up the WMDs and move them to Syria. This idea was dismissed by "Wired", and "Salon", who pointed out that it required President Bush, military leaders, and Senate Democrats to have all colluded in a massive conspiracy theory.