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Report: the Report of the Commission on Intelligence on WMDs:
Source: Report to the President on WMDs, p. 66-76
Nuclear Weapons Finding 1 The Intelligence Community's judgment about Iraq's nuclear program hinged chiefly on an assessment about Iraq's intended use for high-strength aluminum tubes it was seeking to procure. Most of the agencies in the Intelligence Community erroneously concluded these tubes were intended for use in centrifuges in a nuclear program rather than in conventional rockets. This error was, at the bottom, the result of poor analytical tradecraft--namely, the failure to do proper technical analysis informed by thorough knowledge of the relevant weapons technology and practices. Nuclear Weapons Finding 2 In addition to citing the aluminum tubes, the NIE's judgment that Iraq was attempting to reconstitute its nuclear weapons program also referred to additional streams of intelligence.
These other streams, however, were very thin, and the limited value of that supporting intelligence was inadequately conveyed in the October 2002 NIE and in other Intelligence Community products.Nuclear Weapons Finding 3 The other indications of reconstitution--aside from the aluminum tubes--did not themselves amount to a persuasive case for a reconstituted Iraqi nuclear program. In light of the tenuousness of this other information, DOE's argument that the aluminum tubes were not for centrifuges but that Iraq was, based on these other streams of information, reconstituting its nuclear program was a flawed analytical position.Nuclear Weapons Finding 4 The Intelligence Community failed to authenticate in a timely fashion transparently forged documents purporting to show that Iraq had attempted to procure uranium from Niger.
- Topic: War & Peace
- Headline: Belief in Iraqi nukes was poor analysis of aluminum tubes
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Democrats
participating in 05-WMD-03 |
| Charles Robb |
s1s | VA Democratic Senator (Former) | |
Republicans
participating in 05-WMD-03 |
| John McCain |
s1s | AZ Republican Sr Senator | |
Independents
participating in 05-WMD-03 |
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Democrats:
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Republicans:
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