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Article: CIA intelligence on Iraq faulty, says Senate report.(The Dallas Morning News)
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- July 10, 2004
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Byline: Michelle Mittelstadt
WASHINGTON _ The intelligence community provided badly flawed information in the run-up to the invasion of Iraq, with CIA assertions about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction capabilities built on overstated, unsupported or false analyses, the Senate Intelligence Committee concluded in a harshly critical report Friday.
The "slam dunk" on intelligence about Saddam Hussein's WMD programs _ a term CIA Director George Tenet reportedly used when asked by President Bush how solid was the case against Iraq _ is nowhere to be found in the Senate committee's 511-page report.
Instead, the committee sketches a ...