Around the world Quote by Carl Levin

Our failure was that our intelligence community thought [Saddam Hussein ] had stockpiled weapons of mass destruction. That was a mistake. There is fallibility…

— Colin Powell

Official intelligence on Iraqi weapons programs was flawed, but even with its flaws, it was not what led to the war.

— Bill Vaughan

In the late 1980s, the United States and Israel believed that they had good intelligence on Iraq, but they missed the extent of Saddam…

— Ronen Bergman

After 9/11, whatever the evidence of intelligence failures, many people still saw that attack as almost unimaginable, so brutal and brazen an assault.

— Nancy Gibbs

Our failure to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq thus far has been deeply troubling, and our intelligence-gathering process needs thorough and unbiased…

— Adam Schiff

The Iraq war that I signed up for was launched on false premises. The American people were misled. Now, whether that was due to…

— Edward Snowden

We have actually experienced in recent months a dramatic demonstration of an unprecedented intelligence failure, perhaps the most significant intelligence failure in the history…

— Zbigniew Brzezinski

President Bush admitted that the United States went to war in Iraq based on bad intelligence. But he says knowing what we know now…

— Jay Leno

The intelligence community was absolutely uniform and uniformly wrong about the existence of weapons of mass destruction (in Iraq).

— Laurence Silberman

US worse off than before Saddam because US lost credibility.

— Joe Biden

The Bush administration also was not straightforward about the intelligence it had, releasing tenuous information that fit its goal of attacking Iraq. I feel…

— Ken Lucas

The Committee's review of a series of intelligence shortcomings, to include intelligence prior to 9/11 and the pre-war intelligence on Iraq, clearly reveal how…

— Jane Harman