Community Quote by Laurence Silberman

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

— Bill Vaughan

Certainly, if we had not invaded Iraq on intelligence that was clearly manipulated and cherry picked, we would be in a different position today.

— Valerie Plame

The problem with the war in Iraq is not so much the intelligence as the stupidity.

— Barney Frank

I don't concede it at all that the intelligence at the time was wrong.

— Tony Blair

Our intelligence community was extremely poorly prepared before 9/11.

— Lawrence Wright

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

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

The intelligence failures with respect to Iraq were massive and have damaged our credibility around the world

— Carl Levin

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

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

The resistance of policy-makers to intelligence is not just founded on an ideological presupposition. They distrust intelligence sources and intelligence officials because they don't…

— Aldrich Ames

Military intelligence is a contradiction in terms.

— Groucho Marx