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search) is preparing retrospective reports to re vise officially the intelligence on Iraq's weapons capabilities before t he 2003 invasion, according to an intelligence official familiar with th e process. Among them is a document titled "Iraq: No Large-Scale Chemical Warfare Ef forts Since Early 1990s," said the official, who spoke on condition of a nonymity.
search) chemical, biological and nuclear weapons as a leading j ustification to overthrow the Iraqi government. In a lengthy and now controversial prewar analysis, the intelligence comm unity said that Saddam had probably stockpiled at least 100 metric tons, and potentially as much as 500 metric tons, of chemical weapons.
sea rch) have conceded that at least portions of the prewar assessments on I raq were wrong. "Like many of the toughest intelligence challenges, when the facts of Ira q are all in, we will neither be completely right nor completely wrong," Tenet said in a speech defending the agency almost one year ago. He ack nowledged that the purported chemical and biological weapons had yet to be found. By last summer, a Senate Intelligence Committee inquiry concluded that th e intelligence community engaged in "group think" by failing to challeng e the assumption that Iraq had WMD The new series of classified reports on Iraq prepared by the CIA's inte lligence analysis division will be available to all 15 agencies that m ake up the US intelligence community. The reports are not designed for President Bush and other senior policy-makers, the intelligence officia l said. The effort is intended "to make sure the intelligence community's record on Iraq's WMD programs is correct and reflects the most current evaluati on of those programs," the official added. The existence of the new chemical weapons document was first reported Tue sday by the Los Angeles Times. The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, Rep. Jane Harman of California, welcomed efforts to amend the intelligence on Iraq's weapon s "More of the record needs to be corrected, including the agency's ass essment of Iraq's prewar nuclear and biological capabilities," Harman sa id. "But an even bigger priority for the intelligence community is a scrub of intelligence products regarding WMD in Iran and North Korea, where acti ve WMD programs are known to exist and US policy is being fashioned ba sed on these products," she said.
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