Then-Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld wrote: “Early in the war [March 30, 2003], while major combat operations were still underway, I was asked on a news program if I was concerned about the failure to find WMD in Iraq. I had always tried to speak with reserve and precision on intelligence matters, but on this occasion, I made a misstatement. Recalling the CIA’s designation of various ‘suspect’ WMD sites in Iraq, I replied, ‘We know where they are. They’re in the area around Tikrit and Baghdad.’ I should have used the phrase ‘suspect sites.’ My words have been quoted many times by critics of the war as an example of how the Bush administration misled the public.”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 435