“A [January] 2004 study by the Carnegie Endowment for International Peace also detected a politically driven shift in intelligence assessments in 2002. It discovered a yawning gap between what was claimed and what was known, especially the ‘alliance’ between Saddam Hussein and Osama bin Laden. The endowment reported: ‘There was and is no solid evidence of a cooperative relationship between Saddam’s government and al Qaeda. There was no evidence to support the claim that Iraq would have transferred WMD to al Qaeda and much evidence to counter it. The notion that any government would give its principal security assets to people it could not control in order to achieve its own political aims is highly dubious.’ “ [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Jeffrey Record, Wanting War, Page 63