CNN

In the National Intelligence Estimate, which was declassified in October 2002, the U.S. State Department said it could not find a compelling case that Iraq was developing nuclear weapons. But the administration never cited that report in making the public case to go to war.

The article discusses the Bush administration setting up a WMD panel that appears fairly wide in scope

“[The president] wants it to be more broad than Iraq,”

Of course he does, as a matter of fact, if he makes the parameters broad enough Iraq could end up as nothing more than a footnote on page 786. It’s also difficult not to note that Bush is going to be deciding who is going to sit on the panel - how does one do that and still maintain that it is ‘independent’? According to at least one U.S. politician

U.S. officials may have misused what intelligence they did have

May have? Personally I think there is little doubt of this, the Senator doesn’t seem to have to many doubts either with his accusation that Cheney made inaccurate statements about Iraq’s weapons capabilities before the war.

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