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 – 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 – 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 – CHENEY ACKNOWLEDGES IRAQ IS
 CONTAINED:_* Vice President Dick Cheney said that "Saddam
 Hussein is bottled up" – a

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 *_SEPTEMBER 2001 – 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 – 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 – 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 – 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 ‘hit the ceiling’ because
 the CIA failed to provide sufficient ammunition to undermine
 Blix and, by

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 *_SUMMER, 2002 – 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 – 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 ‘no reliable information on
 whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons, or

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 *_SEPTEMBER 20, 2002 – 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 ‘are only really suited for nuclear weapons
 programs, centrifuge programs’ 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 – 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 — STATE DEPT. WARNS WHITE HOUSE ON NUKE
 CHARGES_*: The State Department’s Intelligence and Research
 Department dissented from the conclusion in the National
 Intelligence Estimate on Iraq’s WMD capabilities that Iraq was
 reconstituting its nuclear weapons program.

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 *_OCTOBER 2002 – 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" – 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 House’s
 claims were not well-grounded.

 *_LATE 2002-EARLY 2003 – 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
 ‘unremitting,’ said former CIA counterterrorism chief Vince
 Cannistraro,

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 *_JANUARY, 2003 – 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 – 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 – 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 – CIA WARNS WHITE HOUSE ‘NO DIRECT
 EVIDENCE’ OF WMD:_* "A CIA report on proliferation released
 this week says the intelligence community has no ‘direct
 evidence’ 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 – 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 Bush’s assertion] of
 recent uranium transactions between Iraq and Niger are in fact
 not authentic." When

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 *_MAY 30, 2003 – 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 – 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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