On September 5, 2005, Secretary of State Colin “Powell himself…contended, in defense of his participation [in his February 5, 2003 speech to the UN Security Council], ‘There were some people in the intelligence community who knew at that time that some of these sources were not good, and shouldn’t be relied upon, and they didn’t speak up. That devastated me.’ ”
– Donald Rumsfeld, Known and Unknown, Page 449