The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) is a division of the State Department that has clearance to view intelligence gathered by all other agencies. “At the end of the Key Judgments section of the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate of October 1, 2002], a textbox was included, with the title ‘State/INR Alternative View.’ ‘In INR’s […]
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10/1/2002
“On October 1 [2002], Baghdad agreed that [UN weapons] inspectors could return [to Iraq], and the UN weapons team agreed to await further instructions from the Security Council before taking up its chores.” – Todd S. Purdum and The New York Times Staff, A Time of Our Choosing, Pages 59-60 […]
10/1/2002
In the National Intelligence Estimate of October 1, 2002, in a textbox titled ‘State Department/INR Alternative View of Iraq’s Nuclear program,’ the Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) declared: ” ‘The activities we have detected [in Iraq] do not, however, add up to a compelling case that Iraq is currently pursuing what INR would consider […]
10/1/2002
According to the Silberman-Robb Commission’s report, which was released on March 31, 2005: ” ‘The October [1] 2002 NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] reflected the shift from the late-1990s assessments that Iraq could have biological weapons [BW] to the definitive conclusion that Iraq ‘has’ biological weapons, and that its BW program was larger and more advanced […]
10/1/2002
“[W]hen the Senate Intelligence Committee reviewed the NIE [National Intelligence Estimate of October 1, 2002] in light of evidence that became available after the war, it came to the conclusion that the collective wisdom of the U.S. intelligence community, as represented in the estimate, had been stunningly wrong. ‘Most of the major key judgments [in […]
10/1/2002
“The United States had military commands with responsibility for every part of the world but not for the United States. (Northern Command was created in October [1] 2002 to fill that void.)” – Condoleezza Rice, No Higher Honor, Page 111 […]
10/1/2002
“Before the war the CIA expressed ‘high confidence’ that once American soldiers had the run of Iraq they would find stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons, mobile laboratories to make more, vigorous programs to buy uranium and develop atomic bombs, and much else confronting the United States with a ‘gathering threat’ or ‘growing danger’–words used […]
10/1/2002
“The heart of the [CIA] agency’s case [in their October 1, 2002, National Intelligence Estimate] was built around four factual claims–that Iraq was trying to buy a kind of uranium ore called yellowcake in Niger; that Iraq was trying to buy thousands of aluminum tubes that could be used as rotors in a centrifuge to […]
9/28/2002
“In his weekly radio address [on September 28, 2002], President Bush says the Iraqi regime ‘has longstanding and continuing ties to terrorist groups, and there are Al Qaeda terrorists inside Iraq.’ ” – Frank Rich, The Greatest Story Ever Sold, Page 249 […]
9/28/2002
While pushing for the Homeland Security Bill, President George W. Bush had this to say: “Saddam Hussein has got a choice, and that is, he can disarm. There’s no negotiations, by the way. There’s nothing to negotiate with him. He told the world he would disarm 11 years ago, and he’s lied to the world. (Applause.) It’s […]