CIA's Iraq Defense: Saddam Hussein Lied About WMDs Before, We Thought He Was Lying Again

Now that we're out of Iraq, the CIA has come clean on how come it was bamboozled about Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction. The FOIA ferrets over at the National Security Archive petitioned for, and got, the Central Intelligence Agency's equivalent of the dog-ate-my-homework (technically, the NSA obtained this document under a Mandatory Declassification Review request it made in 2006, which can be faster [it still took six years!] than an FOIA request, if the requester has sufficient details on a specific document).

Bottom line, from the CIA's point of view: Saddam used to lie about possessing WMD, so we believed he still was.

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