In a speech at Georgetown University on February 5, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet said the CIA “had discovered that Iraq had research and development, intent and capability to produce chemical and biological weapons. Halfway through the speech he acknowledged they had not found biological or chemical weapons. The CIA…had discovered that one of their sources had ‘fabricated’ information, Tenet said. …’We cannot afford an environment to develop where analysts are afraid to make a call, where judgments are held back because analysts fear they will be wrong.’ As Tenet went over the intelligence again and again, he acknowledged to associates that the CIA and he should have stated up front…that the evidence was not ironclad, that it did not include a smoking gun.”
– Bob Woodward, Plan of Attack, Pages 439-440