Iraq and Weapons of Mass Destruction
The National Security Archive has just published an expanded collection of core documents relating to the Iraq WMD debate. This update, taken from U.S. and British sources that have become available in recent months, is part of the Archive's Saddam Hussein Sourcebook, first posted in December 2002 and updated in December 2003.
Among the new materials added to the site are:
* David Kay's public testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, 2004
* CIA Director Tenet's February 4, 2004, speech to Georgetown University defending the CIA against David Kay's charge of a basic U.S. intelligence failure
* The infamous forged correspondence on Iraq's alleged attempts to buy uranium from the Republic of Niger
* The Top Secret key judgments section of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that had been released previously in its unclassified form
* An internal CIA appraisal of the October 2002 NIE
* Correspondence between the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and CIA Director George Tenet concerning criticism of the agency's intelligence performance on Iraq
* The British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report weighing the Blair administration's decision to go to war in Iraq
Most of these materials have been made public before, but as often happens there is no guarantee they will not eventually be pulled from government or other web sites. Furthermore, by compiling these records in one location, the collection lets readers form a more detailed picture of how the process worked -- or failed.
The National Security Archive is the world's largest non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and has won numerous awards and recognition for its web postings on U.S. foreign policy.
The National Security Archive has just published an expanded collection of core documents relating to the Iraq WMD debate. This update, taken from U.S. and British sources that have become available in recent months, is part of the Archive's Saddam Hussein Sourcebook, first posted in December 2002 and updated in December 2003.
Among the new materials added to the site are:
* David Kay's public testimony before the Senate Armed Services Committee on January 28, 2004
* CIA Director Tenet's February 4, 2004, speech to Georgetown University defending the CIA against David Kay's charge of a basic U.S. intelligence failure
* The infamous forged correspondence on Iraq's alleged attempts to buy uranium from the Republic of Niger
* The Top Secret key judgments section of the October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that had been released previously in its unclassified form
* An internal CIA appraisal of the October 2002 NIE
* Correspondence between the chairman of the House Intelligence Committee and CIA Director George Tenet concerning criticism of the agency's intelligence performance on Iraq
* The British House of Commons Foreign Affairs Committee report weighing the Blair administration's decision to go to war in Iraq
Most of these materials have been made public before, but as often happens there is no guarantee they will not eventually be pulled from government or other web sites. Furthermore, by compiling these records in one location, the collection lets readers form a more detailed picture of how the process worked -- or failed.
The National Security Archive is the world's largest non-profit user of the U.S. Freedom of Information Act and has won numerous awards and recognition for its web postings on U.S. foreign policy.