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“Kay told CNN he is worried because he's hearing some of the same signals about Iran and its nuclear program that were heard as the Bush administration made its case for the war in Iraq. 'It's déjà vu all over again,' Kay said.”

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The fact that it wasn't tells me that we've got a much more fundamental problem of understanding what went wrong, and we've got to…

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I do believe we have to understand why reality turned out to be different than expectations and estimates. But you have more public service…

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And let me take one of the explanations most commonly given: Analysts were pressured to reach conclusions that would fit the political agenda of…

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The Libyan program recently discovered was far more extensive than was assessed prior to that.

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