Recently located, or relocated, this. It's from the Center for
American Progress. Jan 28, 2004.
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*A chronology of how the Bush Administration repeatedly and
deliberately refused to listen to intelligence agencies that
said its case for war was weak
Former weapons inspector David Kay now says Iraq probably did
not have WMD before the war, a major blow to the Bush
Administration which used the WMD argument as the rationale for
war. Unfortunately, Kay and the Administration are now
attempting to shift the blame for misleading America onto the
intelligence community. But a review of the facts shows the
intelligence community repeatedly warned the Bush Administration
about the weakness of its case, but was circumvented,
overruled, and ignored. The following is year-by-year timeline
of those warnings.
In 2001 and before, intelligence agencies noted that Saddam
Hussein was effectively contained after the Gulf War. In fact,
former weapons
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*_OCTOBER 8, 1997 ΓÇô IAEA SAYS IRAQ FREE OF NUCLEAR WEAPONS:_*
"As reported in detail in the progress report dated 8 October
1997�?and based on all credible information available to date,
the IAEA's verification activities in Iraq, have resulted in the
evolution of a technically coherent picture of Iraq's
clandestine nuclear programme. These verification activities
have revealed no indications that Iraq had achieved its
programme objective of producing nuclear weapons or that Iraq
had produced more than a few grams of weapon-usable nuclear
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*_FEBRUARY 23 & 24, 2001 ΓÇô COLIN POWELL SAYS IRAQ IS
CONTAINED:_* "I think we ought to declare [the containment
policy] a success. We have
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*_SEPTEMBER 16, 2001 ΓÇô CHENEY ACKNOWLEDGES IRAQ IS
CONTAINED:_* Vice President Dick Cheney said that "Saddam
Hussein is bottled up" ΓÇô a
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*_SEPTEMBER 2001 ΓÇô WHITE HOUSE CREATES OFFICE TO CIRCUMVENT
INTEL AGENCIES:_* The Pentagon creates the Office of Special
Plans "in order to find evidence of what Wolfowitz and his boss,
Defense Secretary Donald Rumsfeld, believed to be true-that
Saddam Hussein had close ties to Al Qaeda, and that Iraq had an
enormous arsenal of chemical, biological, and possibly even
nuclear weapons that threatened the region
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Throughout 2002, the CIA, DIA, Department of Energy and United
Nations all warned the Bush Administration that its selective
use of intelligence was painting a weak WMD case. Those warnings
were repeatedly ignored.
*_JANUARY, 2002 ΓÇô TENET DOES NOT MENTION IRAQ IN NUCLEAR
THREAT REPORT:_* "In CIA Director George Tenet's January 2002
review of global weapons-technology proliferation, he did not
even mention a nuclear threat from Iraq, though he did warn of
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*__FEBRUARY 6, 2002 ΓÇô CIA SAYS IRAQ HAS NOT PROVIDED WMD TO
TERRORISTS:__* "The Central Intelligence Agency has no evidence
that Iraq has engaged in terrorist operations against the
United States in nearly a decade, and the agency is also
convinced that President Saddam Hussein has not provided
chemical or biological weapons to Al Qaeda or related terrorist
groups, according to several American intelligence
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*_APRIL 15, 2002 ΓÇô WOLFOWITZ ANGERED AT CIA FOR NOT
UNDERMINING U.N. REPORT:_* After receiving a CIA report that
concluded that Hans Blix had conducted inspections of Iraq's
declared nuclear power plants "fully within the parameters he
could operate" when Blix was head of the international agency
responsible for these inspections prior to the Gulf War, a
report indicated that "Wolfowitz ΓÇÿhit the ceilingΓÇÖ because
the CIA failed to provide sufficient ammunition to undermine
Blix and, by
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*_SUMMER, 2002 ΓÇô CIA WARNINGS TO WHITE HOUSE EXPOSED:_* "In
the late summer of 2002, Sen. Graham had requested from Tenet
an analysis of the Iraqi threat. According to knowledgeable
sources, he received a 25-page classified response reflecting
the balanced view that had prevailed earlier among the
intelligence agencies--noting, for example, that evidence of an
Iraqi nuclear program or a link to Al Qaeda was inconclusive.
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*_SEPTEMBER, 2002 ΓÇô DIA TELLS WHITE HOUSE NO EVIDENCE OF
CHEMICAL WEAPONS:_* "An unclassified excerpt of a 2002 Defense
Intelligence Agency study on Iraq's chemical warfare program in
which it stated that there is ΓÇÿno reliable information on
whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or
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*_SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 ΓÇô DEPT. OF ENERGY TELLS WHITE HOUSE OF
NUKE DOUBTS:_* "Doubts about the quality of some of the
evidence that the United States is using to make its case that
*Iraq* is trying to build a nuclear bomb emerged Thursday. While
National Security Adviser Condi Rice stated on 9/8 that imported
aluminum tubes ΓÇÿare only really suited for nuclear weapons
programs, centrifuge programsΓÇÖ a growing number of experts say
that the administration has not presented convincing evidence
that the tubes were intended for use in uranium enrichment
rather than for artillery rocket tubes or other uses. Former
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*_OCTOBER 2002 ΓÇô CIA DIRECTLY WARNS WHITE HOUSE_*: "The CIA
sent two memos to the White House in October voicing strong
doubts about a claim President Bush made three months later in
the State of the Union address that Iraq was trying to buy
nuclear materials in Africa."
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*_OCTOBER 2002 ΓÇö STATE DEPT. WARNS WHITE HOUSE ON NUKE
CHARGES_*: The State DepartmentΓÇÖs Intelligence and Research
Department dissented from the conclusion in the National
Intelligence Estimate on IraqΓÇÖs WMD capabilities that Iraq was
reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.
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*_OCTOBER 2002 ΓÇô AIR FORCE WARNS WHITE HOUSE: "_*The
government organization most knowledgeable about the United
States' UAV program -- the Air Force's National Air and Space
Intelligence Center -- had sharply disputed the notion that
Iraq's UAVs were being designed as attack weapons" ΓÇô a WMD
claim President Bush used in his October 7
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Instead of listening to the repeated warnings from the
intelligence community, intelligence officials say the White
House instead pressured them to conform their reports to fit a
pre-determined policy. Meanwhile, more evidence from
international institutions poured in that the White HouseΓÇÖs
claims were not well-grounded.
*_LATE 2002-EARLY 2003 ΓÇô CHENEY PRESSURES CIA TO CHANGE
INTELLIGENCE:_* "Vice President Dick Cheney's repeated trips to
CIA headquarters in the run-up to the war for unusual,
face-to-face sessions with intelligence analysts poring over
Iraqi data. The pressure on the intelligence community to
document the administration's claims that the Iraqi regime had
ties to al-Qaida and was pursuing a nuclear weapons capacity was
ΓÇÿunremitting,ΓÇÖ said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vince
Cannistraro,
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*_JANUARY, 2003 ΓÇô STATE DEPT. INTEL BUREAU REITERATE WARNING
TO POWELL:_* "The Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR),
the State Department's in-house analysis unit, and nuclear
experts at the Department of Energy are understood to have
explicitly warned Secretary of State Colin Powell during the
preparation of his speech that the evidence was questionable.
The Bureau reiterated to Mr. Powell during the preparation of
his February speech that its analysts were not persuaded that
the aluminum tubes the Administration was citing could be used
in centrifuges to enrich uranium." [Source: Financial Times,
7/30/03]
*_FEBRUARY 14, 2003 ΓÇô UN WARNS WHITE HOUSE THAT NO WMD HAVE
BEEN FOUND:_* "In their third progress report since U.N.
Security Council Resolution 1441 was passed in November,
inspectors told the council they had not found any weapons of
mass destruction." Weapons inspector Hans
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*_FEBRUARY 15, 2003 ΓÇô IAEA WARNS WHITE HOUSE NO NUCLEAR
EVIDENCE:_* The head of the IAEA told the U.N. in February that
"We have to date found no evidence of ongoing prohibited nuclear
or nuclear-related activities in Iraq." The IAEA examined "2,000
pages of documents seized Jan. 16
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*_FEBURARY 24, 2003 ΓÇô CIA WARNS WHITE HOUSE ΓÇÿNO DIRECT
EVIDENCEΓÇÖ OF WMD:_* "A CIA report on proliferation released
this week says the intelligence community has no ΓÇÿdirect
evidenceΓÇÖ that Iraq has succeeded in reconstituting its
biological, chemical, nuclear or long-range missile programs in
the two years since U.N. weapons inspectors left and
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*_MARCH 7, 2003 ΓÇô IAEA REITERATES TO WHITE HOUSE NO EVIDENCE
OF NUKES:_* IAEA Director Mohamed ElBaradei said nuclear experts
have found "no indication" that Iraq has tried to import
high-strength aluminum tubes or specialized ring magnets for
centrifuge enrichment of uranium. For months, American officials
had "cited Iraq's importation of these tubes as evidence that
Mr. Hussein's scientists have been seeking to develop a nuclear
capability." ElBaradei also noted said "the IAEA has concluded,
with the concurrence of outside experts, that documents which
formed the basis for the [President BushΓÇÖs assertion] of
recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact
not authentic." When
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*_MAY 30, 2003 ΓÇô INTEL PROFESSIONALS ADMIT THEY WERE
PRESSURED:_* "A growing number of U.S. national security
professionals are accusing the Bush administration of slanting
the facts and hijacking the $30 billion intelligence apparatus
to justify its rush to war in Iraq . A key target is a
four-person Pentagon team that reviewed material gathered by
other intelligence outfits for any missed bits that might have
tied Iraqi President Saddam Hussein to banned weapons or
terrorist groups. This team, self-mockingly called the Cabal,
'cherry-picked the intelligence stream' in a bid to portray Iraq
as an imminent threat, said Patrick Lang, a official at the
Defense Intelligence Agency (DIA). The DIA was
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*_JUNE 6, 2003 ΓÇô INTELLIGENCE HISTORIAN SAYS INTEL WAS
HYPED:_* "The CIA bowed to Bush administration pressure to hype
the threat of Saddam Hussein's weapons programs ahead of the
U.S.-led war in Iraq , a leading
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BOB KLAHN
bob.klahn@sev.org http://home.toltbbs.com/bobklahn
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