Congress's Secret Saddam Tapes and WMD

UPDATED 2/8/06: More Collaboration on Saddam's WMD: A former special investigator for the Pentagon during the Iraq war said he found four sealed underground bunkers in southern Iraq that he is sure contain stocks of chemical and biological weapons. But when he asked American weapons inspectors to check out the sites, he was rebuffed. Story here

"I have no doubts the sites were never exploited by ISG. We agents begged and begged for weeks and months to get ISG to respond to the sites with the proper equipment," Mr. Gaubatz said in a telephone interview.

Mr. Gaubatz's new disclosures shed doubt on the thoroughness of the Iraq Survey Group's search for the weapons of mass destruction that were one of the Bush administration's main reasons for the war. Two chief inspectors from the group, David Kay and Charles Duelfer, concluded that they could not find evidence of the promised stockpiles. Mr. Kay refused to be interviewed for this story and Mr. Duelfer did not return email. The CIA referred these questions to Mr. Duelfer.

The new information from the former investigator could also end up helping the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, which recently reopened the question of what happened to the weapons of mass destruction in Iraq.

"Before we can say there is no WMD in Iraq, we must first look. I have no doubts WMD was and is still in Iraq."

I hear there is no smoking gun but a smoking canon

The House  Select Committee on Intelligence is studying 12 hours of  audio recordings between Saddam Hussein and his top advisers that may provide clues to the whereabouts of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Mr. Loftus will make the recordings available to the public on February 17 at the annual meeting of the Intelligence Summit, of which he is president. On the organization's Web site, Mr. Loftus is quoted as promising that the recordings "will be able to provide a few definitive answers to some very important - and controversial - weapons of mass destruction questions." More here  and here  and here and here.

Ladies and gentlemen, mark your calenders for February 17th.

UPDATE: Tom at BizzyBlog here: The “No WMD” Lie (Yet Again) at Coretta Scott King’s Funeral — And a Challenge

All of the links are there. Anyone person claiming "no WMD" has to discredit them all.

The conduct at the King funeral today was a disgrace. They can't win elections, they can only act like children.

Comments

[wxjames]

How can there be questions ? There are no WMDs. Oh, no; There goes the impeachment.

[Robert]

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