Former Ambassador and Senior Member of the Office of Reconstruction and Humanitarian Assistance (OHRA) Robin Raphel spoke about the OHRA’s role in Iraq in an interview with Charles Kennedy on July 13, 2004. ” ‘It was supposed to be a [Iraqi National Congress leader Ahmed] Chalabi-centered effort with the five other [Iraqi political faction] parties… […]
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7/13/2004
According to a Reuters article on July 13, 2004: “John McLaughlin, who had stepped in as acting head of the CIA after George Tenet’s departure, told a congressional panel that the terror threat leading up to the November [2004] elections was ‘as serious a threat environment as I have seen since 9/11.’ ” – Peter […]
7/10/2004
According to a New York Times article on July 10, 2004: “Senator Jay Rockefeller [D-WV], the ranking Democrat on the Intelligence Committee, flatly stated that if he had known then what he knows now, he would not have voted for the war resolution that sent so many U.S. troops into harms way [in Iraq] [sic].” […]
7/9/2004
“[O]n July 9 [2004], the Senate intelligence committee released a devastating 511-page report that chronicled the missteps, miscalculations, and shoddy judgments of the U.S. intelligence community prior to the war. The report concluded that the CIA and other agencies had succumbed to unfounded ‘groupthink’ assumptions in determining that there had been weapons of mass destruction […]
7/9/2004
“The [Senate Intelligence Committee] report [released on July 9, 2004] reaches 117 separate conclusions about the October 2002 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] and other matters relating to prewar intelligence about Iraq, and it is fair to say that almost every one contains a more or less stinging rebuke of the CIA. The report does not […]
7/9/2004
The Senate Intelligence Committee’s July 9, 2004 report of the CIA’s National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) published in October 2002, said the aluminum tubes Iraq allegedly tried to buy from China were “cited as evidence of Iraq’s determination to build nuclear weapons. …The Department of Energy in particular argued in great detail that the tubes were […]
7/9/2004
On July 9, 2004, “the National Intelligence Council issued a paper, still classified, which warned of the possibility that Iraq would collapse into civil war. The best-case scenario, the council said, would be a ‘tenuous stability’; rosier hopes were dropped from the paper as unrealistic.” – Thomas Powers, The Military Error, Page 51 […]
7/9/2004
“The [July 9] 2004 report on prewar intelligence of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said that the CIA’s conclusions in the October [1] 2002 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] classified report on Iraq’s illicit weapons were ‘either overstated, or were not supported by, the underlying intelligence reporting.’ (The committee gave, as examples, the CIA saying […]
7/9/2004
“The initial report by the Senate Intelligence Committee, published in July [9] 2004, severely criticized the CIA for overestimating the danger posed by Saddam’s WMD programs. It also concluded that there had been no significant ties between Saddam and Osama bin Laden’s al-Qaeda terrorist network.” – Con Coughlin, Saddam: His Rise and Fall, Page 374 […]
7/9/2004
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 […]