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CIA長官ジョージ・テネットは、政府機関が去年の3月のアメリカ主導の侵略の前に
イラクが大量破壊兵器を廃棄していたという徴候を見落としたかどうか考慮するために
実質的に彼ら情報機関の内部の徹底的調査をするように捜査官に命令した。
最後の部分----
重要な点はCIAのアナリストがサダムが秘かに大量破壊兵器を蓄えていたという仮定が最優先であった為
それをすでに廃棄したという証拠のレポートを無視したか、または見落としたということにある。
USA TODAY
http://www.usatoday.com/
http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-11-19-cia-iraq_x.htm
CIA will examine raw data on Iraq
By John Diamond, USA TODAY
WASHINGTON — CIA Director George Tenet has ordered investigators to substantially widen their internal probe of Iraq intelligence to consider whether the agency missed telltale signs that Iraq had gotten rid of its weapons of mass destruction before the U.S.-led invasion last March.
The probe, which has been conducted by a four-member team of former senior CIA analysts since early this year, was broadened this week. It will now extend into 20 volumes of raw intelligence reports, such as electronic intercepts, spy satellite photos and reports from human sources. Until now, the team had limited its work to a far smaller volume of finished intelligence reports and assessments.
In a probe that parallels investigations by the House and Senate intelligence committees, the team is examining the quality of prewar intelligence that said Saddam Hussein's regime had chemical and biological weapons and a resurgent nuclear weapons program. The alleged weapons were the Bush administration's key stated reason for invading Iraq, but U.S. searchers have failed to find such weapons there since U.S. forces entered Iraq.
The expanded probe was disclosed by two intelligence officials who asked not be named, and was confirmed by Richard Kerr, former CIA deputy director and head of the four-member team. Kerr said in a telephone interview Wednesday, "It's important to figure out, from an intelligence point of view, if we didn't do it well, how could we have done better."
Although Kerr would like to wait until chief U.S. weapons searcher David Kay finishes his work in Iraq sometime next spring or summer, the team has already concluded that no matter how long Kay's teams look, they are unlikely to turn up the vast arsenal U.S. intelligence said was in Iraq before the war. And meanwhile, the clock is ticking on the House and Senate investigations, which are expected to be sharply critical of the CIA and could issue findings long before Kay wraps up his work.
Tenet, who ordered the expanded investigation last week, also wants Kerr's team to see what he regards as an enormous volume of solid information the CIA assembled over the past decade indicating that Iraq had illegal weapons.
The two intelligence officials said a key aim is to look for raw prewar reports indicating that Iraq may have, as it claimed, dismantled its weapons of mass destruction programs. The concern is that CIA analysts discounted or overlooked those reports because of an overriding assumption that Saddam was secretly hoarding an arsenal of banned weapons.
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