That was the administration vs the intel community. There were CIA reports advising the administration that there was no clear evidence but the admin pushed the

That was the administration vs the intel community. There were CIA reports advising the administration that there was no clear evidence but the admin pushed the WMD narrative really hard because of a potential. Even then, it was more complicated than that because Iran was on the verge of attacking Iraq (which is probably why the admin and military were pushing to move in the first place). Tangent aside, it's different when US administrative, US intelligence, and multiple other countries are in agreement about Chinese hacking and intellectual property theft.