According to a July 10, 2004, article in The New York Times, on July 9, “the Intelligence Committee would issue a scathing report condemning the major findings in the [October 1, 2002 National Intelligence] assessment as unsubstantiated by the CIA’s own reporting and [CIA Director George] Tenet himself would term it ‘flawed analysis.’ But at the time it served as the backbone of the [Bush] administration’s case against Saddam Hussein.”
– Elisabeth Bumiller, Condoleezza Rice: An American Life, Page 194