Reply #9: The CIA was telling Bush in 2002 there were no WMD [View All]

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http://www.antiwar.com/mcgovern/?articleid=11298

They Knew All Too Well

In fact Cheney, as well as Tenet, knew very well that Cheney's assertions were lies. How? Saddam's son-in-law, Hussein Kamel, whom Saddam had put in charge of chemical, biological, and nuclear weapons, as well as missile development, told us when he defected in mid-1995 that all (that's right, ALL) such weapons had been destroyed at his order in July 1991 after the Gulf War.

And not only that. In mid-2002, Iraq's foreign minister, Naji Sabri, whom my former CIA colleagues had recruited in place, was telling us the same thing. When CIA operations officers, justifiably proud at having recruited Sabri, briefed the president and his senior advisers on what Sabri had said, they were astonished to be treated like skunks at a picnic – shocked to experience firsthand that their hard-won intelligence was decidedly not welcome. They had used almost every trick in the thick book of tradecraft to "turn" the foreign minister and get him working for us. Now they were being told that the White House wanted no further reporting from him: "This isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change."



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Wasn't Rumsfeld looking for Iraqi targets on 9/11 and didn't the admin come in hell bent on war from day one? I don't find Feith believable.