“The National Intelligence Estimate of October [1] 2002 stated, ‘Iraq does not yet have a nuclear weapon or sufficient material to make one…’ ” – Philip Taylor, The War in Iraq, Page 48 […]
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10/1/2002
The CIA’s October 1, 2002 “National Intelligence Estimate, had been requested in early September by senators on the [Senate Select] committee [on Intelligence] who wanted written information to help them decide whether to vote for the war resolution that would soon be before Congress. In response, the CIA crashed out an assessment in nineteen days–rather […]
10/1/2002
“When the classified assessment [that was requested by October 1, 2002, by vice chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee Senator Bob Graham (D-FL)] was finally submitted, the conclusions about Iraq’s WMD went a step further than those in the December 2000 report [a National Intelligence Estimate titled ‘Iraq: Steadily Pursuing WMD Capabilities’]. Much of the […]
10/1/2002
On October 1, 2002, “CIA officials had referred to the [Niger/Iraq] uranium claim in the classified ninety-page National Intelligence Estimate on Iraqi weapons programs.” However, “the CIA had included as a footnote to the assessment that the uranium allegations were ‘highly dubious.’ ” – Stefan Halper and Jonathan Clarke, America Alone, Page 216 […]
10/1/2002
According to the National Intelligence Estimate of October 1, 2002: “The only situation in which Saddam might take the ‘extreme step’ of assisting an Islamic terrorist group like Al Qaeda in attacking the United States would be one in which Saddam had been cornered and felt the United States was on the verge of upending […]
10/1/2002
The National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) of October 1, 2002 said: “that the United States had a ‘high confidence’ that: ‘*Iraq is continuing, and in some areas expanding, its chemical, biological, nuclear, and missile programs contrary to U.S. resolutions. *We are not detecting portions of these weapons programs. *Iraq possesses proscribed chemical and biological weapons and missiles. […]
10/1/2002
“The National Intelligence Estimate that was provided to Congress in October [1] 2002 reported that Saddam had up to several dozen Scud missiles with ranges of 400 to 550 miles. The threat that Saddam might fire Scuds with WMD warheads at Israel had been one of the Pentagon’s biggest worries and extensive training had been […]
10/1/2002
” ‘I haven’t made up my mind we’re going to war with Iraq,’ he [President Bush] said at an October [1, 2002] press conference. ‘I’ve made up my mind we need to disarm the man [Saddam Hussein]. …There needs to be a strong new [United Nations] resolution in order for us to make it clear […]
10/1/2002
The CIA’s classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, delivered to Congress on October 1, 2002, “offered bold and definitive conclusions in its ‘key judgments’: Iraq, it said, ‘has chemical and biological weapons’ and ‘is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.’ …Deeper in the NIE, there was information that undercut those stark […]
10/1/2002
“The NIE [National Intelligence Estimate, released on October 1, 2002] stated with ‘high confidence’ that Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program since the U.N. weapons inspectors had left Iraq in 1998, adding that Iraq ‘probably will have a nuclear weapon during this decade.’ According to former NSA [National Security Agency] and CIA analysts, NSA […]