In an effort to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in only three weeks’ time in the fall of 2002, “the CIA frantically had to verify dubious bits of intelligence, including one questionable nugget that [CIA Director George] Tenet had indiscreetly divulged to the Senate Select Intelligence Committee and the Senate Armed Services Committee [in late September 2002]. ‘We know Iraq has developed a redundant capability to produce biological warfare agents using mobile production units,’ he had asserted.” [The 25th of the month used for date sorting purposes only.]
– Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 247