Posted on 06/06/2003 11:39:15 PM PDT by JohnHuang2
Edited on 07/12/2004 4:03:40 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
The director of the Defense Intelligence Agency yesterday debunked the notion that a classified intelligence report had said the United States had no reliable evidence before hostilities that Iraq possessed weapons of mass destruction.
The 2002 DIA report, leaked to the press this week, said intelligence officials could not pin down the exact location of Saddam Hussein's caches of chemical and biological weapons. However, Adm. Lowell Jacoby, the director of the DIA, said yesterday that didn't mean Iraq's banned weapons program was a myth.
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I buy this version: That Bush did not cook the books. The assertion is made more credible because, in effect, it is an admission against interest made by the Defense Intelligence Agency director. Is he falling on his sword for Bush?
In any event, we have a big intelligence failure here if no weapons are found. If they were moved or destroyed, should we have known? The intelligence gathering institutions overall must be reevaluated and fixed. I think we wll find the virus was contracted from the Dems when they ran congress and accelerated under Slick.
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