[Diddle E. Squat]

Richard Clarke, muddying the water to distract from or at least crossfire the recent CIA firing, his co-fellow at CSIS.

[Ma3lst0rm]

I wouldn't be surprised. The media has used unnamed contacts in the CIA far too often.

[hershey]

Bingo!

[carl in alaska]

IIRC, George Tenet's statement when he left the CIA completely contradicts this cBS story. My recollection is that Tenet said something like:

Some of our intelligence about Iraqi WMD was correct and some of it was incorrect. There were a lot of gray areas and the truth lies somewhere in the middle ground.

That tells me the CIA was correct about some of the WMD programs, and the main reason we didn't find much WMD was because 95% of the WMD was shipped out of Iraq before the war. When you consider the extreme lethality of some of the chemical weapons that Iraq was capable of producing, I think the Russians actually did us a big favor by helping to move those weapons to Syria and elsewhere. I'd like to see a named source by cBS on this one. This story is questionable.