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Blair Admits Failings in Iraq Dossier (66k PDF)
BBC News
Two Iraq dossiers: (1) Sept 2002, claimed Iraq had a continuing program of chemical and biological weapons and had tried to acquire nuclear material from Africa, and (2) Feb. 2003, labelled the "dodgy dossier" because parts were plagiarized from a 12-year-old thesis.
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Chalabi Provided Most NYT's WMD Coverage
The Sydney Moring Herald
NYT reporter Judith Miller remarked that she'd "been covering Chalabi for about 10 years, and had done most of the stories about him. . . . He has provided most of the front page exclusives on WMD."
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Delta Force's Task Force 20 fails to find WMD
The Washington Post
Operating in Iraq since before the war began, this classified covert team, famed for its exploits and drawn from the famed Delta Force, has come up empty handed in its search for WMD.
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WMD in IRAQ; Evidence and Implications (1286k PDF)
Carnegie Endowment for International Peace
The Carnegie Endowment says that the Administration assumed the worst case was the likely case. No WMD, no evidence, no proof, nothing.
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The Man Who Knew
60 Minutes II | CBSNews.com
Greg Thielmann was director of the Office of Strategic Proliferation and Military Affair and was responsible for analyzing the Iraqi weapons threat. Thielmann reported they were confident the tubes were not for a nuclear program. Then, about a year later, when the administration was building a case for war, the tubes were resurrected...
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Let's track down Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS)
Ray McGovern, a retired C.I.A. analyst
Larry Johnson, who used to work in the C.I.A. and State Department
Greg Thielmann, who retired in September after 25 years in the State Department,
the last four in the Bureau of Intelligence and Research.
Steering Group Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity
Kathleen McGrath Christison, Santa Fe, NM
William Christison, Santa Fe, NM
David MacMichael, Linden, VA
Raymond McGovern, Arlington, VA
VIPS is a coast-to-coast enterprise; mostly intelligence officers from analysis side of CIA. Ray McGovern (rmcgovern@slschool.org) worked as a CIA analyst for 27 years
The VIPS can be reached at: vips@counterpunch.org
Patrick Eddington, a VIPS member and former CIA agent who resigned in 1996 to protest what he describes as the agency's refusal to investigate some of the possible causes of Gulf War veterans' medical problems.
Vince Cannistraro, a former CIA counterterrorism chief, said he saw little chance of CIA analysts going public to contradict the Bush administration.
Eugene Betit, a former defense intelligence analyst who belongs to Veteran Intelligence Professionals for Sanity (VIPS), formed in January to speak out on the use of intelligence to justify the war.
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Ex-Arms Hunter Kay Says No WMD Stockpiles in Iraq
2004 Tabassum Zakaria, Reuters
"I don't think they existed," Kay said. "What everyone was talking about is stockpiles produced after the end of the last (1991) Gulf War, and I don't think there was a large-scale production program in the '90s," he said.
"I think we have found probably 85 percent of what we're going to find," said Kay, who returned from Iraq in December and told the CIA that he would not be going back.
"I think the best evidence is that they did not resume large-scale production and that's what we're really talking about," Kay said.
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Preliminary Report
Oct. 2, 2003 David Kay, 10/2/03, Bush Administration Weapons Inspector
“We have not uncovered evidence that Iraq undertook significant post-1998 steps to actually build nuclear weapons or produce fissile material.” - Bush Administration Weapons Inspector David Kay, 10/2/03
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International Atomic Energy Agency
Jan. 28, 2003 NY Times, 1/28/03
"The International Atomic Energy Agency's report that Iraq has not resumed its nuclear program has challenged one of the Bush administration's main arguments for taking military action to topple the Iraqi government." --
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