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So, Where Are Those Iraqi Weapons?
CIA Investigates Accuracy Of Administration's Accusations That Led To War

theomahachannel.com
POSTED: 3:02 p.m. EDT May 30, 2003
UPDATED: 3:04 p.m. EDT May 30, 2003

WASHINGTON -- The Central Intelligence Agency is investigating the accuracy of the Bush administration's conclusions that Iraq represented an imminent and direct threat to the United States.

The administration cited U.S. intelligence assessments that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction and had ties to al-Qaida terrorists as reasons to attack Iraq.

Now, after seven weeks of U.S. occupation of Iraq, the failure to find evidence supporting those accusations raises the prospect that President Bush, Secretary of State Colin Powell, Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld and other administration officials either exaggerated the danger to justify the invasion of Iraq or were misled by flawed intelligence.


There's also another possible outcome: U.S. searchers will eventually find that evidence. While asking tough questions about administration credibility, we should keep an open mind.

We know with certitude that Saddam Hussein didn't use those monstrous weapons during the war, despite pre-war U.S. claims that front-line units of the Iraqi army had been delegated authority to do so. Either the weapons are buried deep or they were destroyed -- or they didn't exist.

Four retired CIA officials with access to the classified reports of 12 separate intelligence agencies are conducting the U.S. intelligence review.

A CIA spokesman said it would be months before the study is completed.

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