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Article: Iraq war justification blasted Senate report attacks intelligence agencies' data used by Bush as rationale for invasion
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- Oakland Tribune
- Article date:
- July 10, 2004
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WASHINGTON -- In a scathing, unanimous report, the Senate
Intelligence Committee said Friday that the most pivotal assessments
used to justify the war against Iraq had been unfounded, unreasonable
and reflected major missteps on the part of American intelligence
agencies.
The detailed, 511-page report, the result of a yearlong review,
found in particular that the stark prewar judgment by American
intelligence agencies that Iraq possessed chemical and biological
weapons had not been substantiated by the agencies' own reporting at
the time.
"Most of the major key judgments" in an October 2002 National
Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's illicit weapons were "either
overstated, or were not ...