The CIA’s October 1, 2002 “National Intelligence Estimate, had been requested in early September by senators on the [Senate Select] committee [on Intelligence] who wanted written information to help them decide whether to vote for the war resolution that would soon be before Congress. In response, the CIA crashed out an assessment in nineteen days–rather than the usual six to ten months–that flatly asserted that Iraq had chemical and biological weapons and was reconstituting its nuclear program.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 194