“[A] November 2002 paper produced by the CIA’s Directorate of Intelligence (DI) reiterated the [October 1, 2002] NIE’s [National Intelligence Estimate’s] assessment that Iraq had a ‘broad range of lethal and incapacitating agents’ and that the ‘BW [biological weapons] program is more robust than it was prior to the Gulf War.’ The piece contended that Iraq was capable of producing an array of agents and probably retained strains of the smallpox virus. It further argued that technological advances increased the potential Iraqi BW threat to U.S. interests.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Tyler Drumheller with Elaine Monaghan, On The Brink, Pages 239-240