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Since midsummer, the Senate Intelligence Committee has been attempting to solve the biggest mystery of the Iraq war: the disparity between the Bush Administration’s prewar assessment of Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and what has actually been discovered. The committee is concentrating on the last ten years’ worth of reports by the C.I.A. Preliminary findings, one intelligence official told me, are disquieting. “The intelligence community made all kinds of errors and handled things sloppily,” he said. The problems range from a lack of quality control to different agencies’ reporting contradictory assessments at the same time. One finding, the official went...

UNITED NATIONS - U.N. weapons inspectors are planning for possible monitoring of Iraq's biological, chemical and missile programs despite being barred from the country by the United States, according to a report to the U.N. Security Council. The quarterly report released Wednesday by the U.N. Monitoring, Verification and Inspection Commission, known as UNMOVIC, outlines a range of activities undertaken by the U.N. inspectors to seek new information about Iraq's weapons programs and to prepare for a possible future role. U.N. inspectors were pulled out of Iraq in March, just before the U.S.-led war that toppled Saddam Hussein's regime. After the...

Aaron Brown of CNN just had David Kay, former weapons inspector on for an interview. Aaron said he wanted to "put politics aside" and just stay with the facts. This interview was soooo bias. They had a close-up photo of a broken IAEA seal and Kay commented that once a seal had been broken on a bunker, "you own it", in other words, you were responsible for guarding it, so he was in effect, blaming the troops! You could just tell from the look on Aaron's face he enjoyed hearing that about as much as Clinton enjoyed Monica, while on...

Corrections Washington Post, October 8, 2004, Pg. 2 "An Oct. 7 article and the lead Page One headline incorrectly attributed a quotation to Charles A. Duelfer, the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq. The statement, 'We were almost all wrong,' was made by Duelfer's predecessor, David Kay, at a Senate Armed Services Committee hearing Jan. 28." Oopsie! Isn't this the darndest thing? An enormously important report confirming that Saddam was scamming the world by selling oil to UN criminals as part of his reacquiring WMDs next year, and those silly geese at the Post just sort of got it all...

Bush administration in denial about lack of Iraq WMD: Kay Thu Oct 7,12:07 PM ET WASHINGTON (AFP) - President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s administration is in denial over the lack of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq (news - web sites) before the US-led invasion in 2003, ex-chief US arms inspector David Kay said. AFP/File Photo A report by the Iraq Survey Group that Kay ran until he quit at the start of the year found Iraq had no chemical, biological or nuclear weapons when Bush was saying that Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)...

Kay Criticizes Bush, Blair on Iraq Intel LONDON - President Bush and British Prime Minister Tony Blair should have realized before going to war that intelligence on Iraqi weapons was weak and did not indicate Saddam Hussein posed a danger to the West, America's former chief weapons inspector in Iraq said Sunday. David Kay resigned from the CIA in January and his conclusion then that Iraq did not have stockpiles of forbidden weapons caused serious problems for both Bush and Blair, undercutting their main justification for war. He told Britain's ITV network that Bush and Blair "should have been able...

US expert slams WMD 'delusions' Weapons of mass destruction do not exist in Iraq and it is "delusional" to think they will be found, says former chief US weapons inspector David Kay. Mr Kay told BBC Radio 4's Today programme that British and American leaders should simply apologise and admit that they were wrong. He said Saddam Hussein had intended to reconstitute his weapons programme at some point and had acted illegally. However, there were no actual WMD stockpiles, he said. Mr Kay led the hunt for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq until he stepped down as head of...

WASHINGTON (AP) - In its first official meeting Wednesday, the president's commission investigating flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction heard from David Kay, the former Iraq weapons inspector whose criticism helped drive the panel's creation. Kay, along with about a dozen other experts, appeared before the commission in a closed seven-hour session to brief the nine commissioners as they begin sorting out the quality of U.S. intelligence on the threat of weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. President Bush formed the commission - called the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction...

May 6, 2004 Inspector says he warned U.S. officials of Iraqi prisoner abuse By BOB GIBSON Media General News Service CHARLOTTESVILLE, Va. -- David Kay, the man who led the U.S. search for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, says he repeatedly told people about problems with the interrogation of prisoners, but the military ignored him. "I was there and I kept saying the interrogation process is broken. The prison process is broken. And no one wanted to deal with it," Kay said. "It was too, too distasteful. This is a known problem, and the military refuses to deal with...

Jordan's King Abdullah revealed on Saturday that vehicles reportedly containing chemical weapons and poison gas that were part of a deadly al Qaeda bomb plot came from Syria, the country named by U.S. weapons inspector David Kay last year as a likely repository for Iraq's weapons of mass destruction. "It was a major, major operation. It would have decapitated the government," King Abdullah told the San Francisco Chronicle. Jordanian officials estimated that the death count could have been as high as 20,000 - seven times greater than the Sept. 11 attacks. Abdullah said that trucks containing 17.5 tons of...

Monday that he had not concluded by July 2003 that Iraq did not possess any weapons of mass destruction as reported by Vanity Fair magazine. Kay told Reuters he was working on four hypotheses in July and did not conclude until later last year that Iraq probably did not have such weapons. President Bush cited the banned weapons as the main reason for taking the United States to war against Saddam Hussein's Iraq in March 2003. In a lengthy report in its latest issue which goes on sale this week, Vanity Fair said that less than a month after arriving...

<!DOCTYPE HTML PUBLIC "-//W3C//DTD HTML 4.0 Transitional//EN"/> March 31, 2004 Iraq Arms Inspector Says Search Is a TangleBy DOUGLAS JEHL ASHINGTON, March 30 — The new chief weapons inspector in Iraq told Congress on Tuesday that a lack of cooperation from ousted Iraqi officials was thwarting American efforts to untangle the many remaining mysteries surrounding Iraq's suspected illicit weapons program. In the public version of testimony delivered behind closed doors to two Senate committees on Tuesday, the inspector, Charles A. Duelfer, acknowledged that American inspectors had still not found any evidence of an illicit arsenal. But he seemed less inclined...

A U.S. official working with an international group of specialists searching post-Saddam Iraq for weapons of mass destruction said today that more work needs to be performed before arriving at any conclusions. "I do not believe we have sufficient information and insight to make final judgments with confidence at this time" regarding the whereabouts of Saddam Hussein's WMDs, Charles A. Duelfer told Senate Armed Services Committee members here. Duelfer's testimony before the committee was behind closed doors and his unclassified remarks were posted on the CIA's public Web site. Duelfer said he's been the CIA's special adviser for strategy regarding...

Dr. Kay Had Maps with Coordinates of WMD Hiding Places in Syria Feb. 17 - Setting up an inquiry commission is the political leader’s favorite dodge for burying an embarrassing problem until the pursuit dies down. President George W. Bush will this week bow to election-year pressures from Democrats and his own Republicans alike and sign an executive order to investigate US intelligence failings regarding Saddam Hussein’s weapons of mass destruction on the eve of war. Both his senior war partners, the Australian and British prime ministers, face the same public clamor ever since WMD hunter Dr. David Kay resigned,...

What do you mean 'we' were wrong? Posted: March 20, 2004 1:00 a.m. Eastern © 2004 WorldNetDaily.com Did you see David Kay's confession – "It turns out that we were all wrong" – before the Senate Armed Services Committee about a month ago? Maybe you wondered who "we" were. "We" certainly didn't include Kay's one-time boss at the International Atomic Energy Agency, Hans Blix, who had come out of retirement to chair the U.N. Monitoring Verification and Inspection Commission. "We" certainly didn't include Blix's successor at the IAEA – Director General Mohamed ElBaradei. So, what's this "we" stuff? Well, you...

In the week that marks the one-year anniversary of the start of Operation Iraqi Freedom, Deputy Defense Secretary Paul Wolfowitz commented on various aspects of the operation in a series of radio interviews March 16. In an interview with Eric Westervelt and Juan Williams on National Public Radio, Wolfowitz wondered why some people ask in hindsight why the United States didn't do more with incomplete intelligence information before the Sept. 11, 2001, terrorist attacks, yet criticize U.S. action in Iraq on the grounds that pre-war intelligence lacked certainty. "I thought the lesson of Sept. 11 is you can't wait for...

David Kay, the man who led the CIA's postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to "come clean with the American people" and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons. In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Kay said the administration's reluctance to make that admission was delaying essential reforms of US intelligence agencies, and further undermining its credibility at home and abroad. He welcomed the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq, and said the wide-ranging US investigation was much more likely to...

<p>UNITED NATIONS — A report from U.N. weapons inspectors to be released today says they now believe there were no weapons of mass destruction of any significance in Iraq after 1994, according to two U.N. diplomats who have seen the document.</p>

After all of the publicity relating to the David Kay report, I thought it might be wise to read the report for myself to test whether or not the coverage has been accurate in the local newspapers. What I found was surprising. In my view, the Kay Report actually included enough information to justify the war in Iraq, and yet, no media outlet has said this. On the contrary, it seems as if most media outlets have given an incomplete accounting of this report, and specifically have been very anti-Bush in overall coverage, in my opinion. See for yourself if...

Make no foolish admissions of Iraq error SHORTLY before the Iraq war last March, Canberra received important intelligence from a friendly service. There was a dispute within the Iraqi government over whether to comply fully with the UN on weapons of mass destruction. Tariq Aziz, deputy prime minister, wanted to comply with the UN. Saddam Hussein said no, keeping WMDs was central to his regime. This was one of countless pieces of intelligence that convinced everyone Saddam had WMDs. Now, here's the thing for people who want to restructure Australian intelligence as a result of the failure to find large...