While giving a speech at Georgetown University on February 5, 2004, CIA Director George Tenet addressed issues of pre-war intelligence on Iraq’s potential possession of WMD: ” ‘Let me be clear: analysts differed on several important aspects of these [WMD development] programs and those debates were spelled out in the [National Intelligence] estimate [of October 2002]. They never said there was an imminent threat. Rather, they painted an objective assessment for our policy makers of a brutal dictator [Saddam] who was continuing his efforts to deceive and build programs that might constantly surprise us and threaten our interests.’ ”
– Philip Taylor, The War in Iraq, Pages 202-203