CIA set to officially revise Iraq weapons intelligence

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By Katherine Pfleger Shrader, Associated Press


WASHINGTON - The CIA is preparing retrospective reports to officially revise what proved to be faulty intelligence on Iraq's weapons capabilities before the 2003 invasion.
Among them is a document no more than a dozen pages entitled "Iraq: No Large-Scale Chemical Warfare Efforts Since Early 1990s," said an intelligence official familiar with the process.

The report concludes that former Iraqi President Saddam Hussein gave up his chemical weapons program after the 1991 Gulf War.

The Bush administration used the existence of weapons of mass destruction - chemical, biological and nuclear weapons - as a leading justification to overthrow the Iraqi government.

In a lengthy and now controversial prewar analysis, the intelligence community said that Saddam had probably stockpiled at least 100 metric tons, and potentially as much as 500 metric tons, of chemical weapons. "Much of it added in the last year," the document said.

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[EVDebs]

1. Who needs a CIA when you can stovepipe b.s. thru Office of Special Plans

and shills like Chalabi not to mention a willing media like the NYTimes and cable TV as the 'mighty Wurlitzer' to spread the manure ?

[Ganja Ninja]

2. Does this mean the claim that the WMD's were shiped to Syria ...

before the war won't be brought up again?

[Jim__]

3. This would be funny if there weren't something like 100,000 people

dead.

Whoops! Let's just change our assessment.

[Gyre]

4. What a bunch of clones.

They make me sick. An agency of tens of thousands and not a single patriot among them. Where's Osama when we really need him?

[Moderator]

5. Duplicate

It's already been issued

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=102&topic_id=1204507