Senator Carl Levin (D-MI) was interviewed by John Gibson on Fox News’ The Big Story on February 2, 2004. Regarding a possible al Qaeda/Iraq link, ” ‘The intel didn’t say there is a direct connection between al Qaeda and Iraq… That was not the intel. That’s what this [Bush] administration exaggerated to produce. And so there are many instances where the administration went beyond the intelligence. …I’m saying that the administration’s statements were exaggerations of what was given to them by the intelligence community.’ ”
– Stephen F. Hayes, The Connection, Page 182