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Twists in Iraq intelligence dispute
(San Francisco Examiner, March 10, 2004)
THE CHIEF OF THE CIA, in a Senate hearing Tuesday, contradicted statements made by Vice President Dick Cheney about the relationship between Saddam Hussein's Iraq and the al-Qaida terrorist organization. The disagreement uncovered a new facet to the ongoing squabble between intelligence agencies and administration officials. . . . Some months back, we wrote that the question of what was behind administration claims before the invasion of Iraq about supposed stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction in that country came down to two basic and ugly possibilities, one of which must be true. . . . One possibility was that the president or people very close to him had intimidated U.S. spy services into bending the actual intelligence into a form that would favor a preemptive war and administration claims that Saddam Hussein was building a great store of weapons. . . . On Tuesday, CIA Director George Tenet told the Senate Armed Services Committee that Vice President Dick Cheney was wrong to say that the government had proof of an Iraqi biological weapons program. He also disputed assertions from the vice president that Iraq had cooperated with al-Qaida.

posted by Lorenzo 7:51 PM