Community Quote by Stephen Hadley

The intelligence is clear: (Saddam) continues to believe his WMD programme is essential both for internal repression and for external aggression.

— Tony Blair

The information that the intelligence people used was a combination of satellite information, signals intelligence, and human intelligence. We are not sure to what…

— Colin Powell

The intelligence community's 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) stated, in a formal presentation to President Bush and to Congress, its view that Saddam had…

— Laurence Silberman

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

— Barney Frank

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

To understand a difficult topic like Iraq takes patience and care. Unfortunately, you rarely hear a patient, careful or thoughtful discussion of intelligence these…

— George Tenet

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

— Laurence Silberman

We foolishly did not realize Saddam was stupid.

— April Glaspie

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

I don't get intelligence off a satellite. Iraqis tell me who the enemy is.

— James Mattis

Every intelligence agency in the world believed that Saddam Hussein had had weapons of mass destruction, precursor chemicals. The inspectors, over a period of…

— John Reid

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