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CIA's intelligence assessment on Iraq WMD: >The document determines that Saddam Hussein had an active chemical weapons program - although crucially, the CIA co
by woofyman 10y ago
CIA's intelligence assessment on Iraq WMD:
>The document determines that Saddam Hussein had an active chemical weapons program - although crucially, the CIA couldn't prove that his regime had actually resumed producing chemical and biological agents and cast doubt on the actual extent of Saddam's program.
http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-the-cias-2002-intelligence-assessment-on-wmd-in-iraq-2015-3 http://www.businessinsider.com/heres-the-full-version-of-the...
The Bush administration misrepresented the intelligence.
- travmatt 10y agoSpecifically, Bush created government agencies that say between himself and the int lligence agencies, these were tasked with 'correcting' the intelligence he was receiving. Bush wanted to believe that Iraq had WMD's, so he designed his administration in such a way as to make that conclusion inevitable.