12/15/2000

“In December 2000, the CIA and other intelligence agencies produced a National Intelligence Estimate entitled ‘Iraq: Steadily Pursuing WMD Capabilities,’ a document intended to be a comprehensive and authoritative account of what the best and the brightest among the U.S. intelligence community had been able to establish about their past and potential future adversary.” [The 15th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]

 – Michael R. Gordon and Bernard E. Trainor, Cobra II, Page 143