Eastasia has always had WMDs

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James Risen, writing for the NY Times, on 28 April 2004:

The CIA and other intelligence agencies found little evidence to support the Pentagon's view of an increasingly unified terrorist threat or links between Saddam and Osama bin Laden, and still largely dismiss those ideas. [...] But, [Douglas J. Feith, the undersecretary of defense for policy] said in an interview, terrorism and Iraq’s weapons became linked in the minds of top Bush administration officials. After Sept. 11 and the anthrax attacks that followed it, he said, the administration “focused on the danger that Iraq could provide the fruits of its WMD programs to terrorists.”

James Risen, writing for the NY Times, today:

While the Senate panel has concluded that C.I.A. analysts and other intelligence officials overstated the case that Iraq had illicit weapons, the committee has not found any evidence that the analysts changed their reports as a result of political pressure from the White House, according to officials familiar with the report.