“The most important prewar intelligence report that the Bush administration relied upon to justify its going to war in Iraq was the…October 1, 2002, National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), a CIA report that utilized the input of every intelligence agency in the federal government…and was classified ‘Top Secret.’ The NIE report (titled ‘Iraq’s Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction’), which was sent to the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, was of course kept under lock and key in a secure room. But although any member of Congress could have read the report, as set forth in Hubris, the Inside Story of Spin, Scandal, and the Selling of the Iraqi War by Michael Isikoff and David Corn, ‘Senate aides would calculate that no more than half a dozen or so members actually went to the secure room’ to read it.”
– Vincent Bugliosi, The Prosecution of George W. Bush for Murder, Page 108