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...mass destruction (WMD). Tenet reasoned that if anyone could find the stockpiles of nuclear, chemical and biological arms on which the Bush Administration had predicated its unprecedented, pre-emptive attack on Saddam Hussein's regime, it was Kay. The Texan had spent 20 years as an international weapons inspector, with several tours in Iraq. Hard-nosed and fiercely independent, Kay, 63, had a vast network of friends at the Pentagon and the CIA--and among Iraqis in Baghdad. A political conservative, he sent the Bush campaign a check for $200 not long after Bush began his quest for the G.O.P...
...senior White House official told TIME that Bush might go along with a blue-ribbon panel, though the President wants to let the Iraq Survey Group continue its work. With Kay having resigned his post, the group is now under the leadership of Charles Duelfer, another veteran arms inspector. Bush, the official said, continues to stand by Tenet, in part because foreign intelligence agencies also missed the WMD. Besides, the source added, Bush is "very willing to go out and discuss why [war] was the right thing to do. He is as sure of this as he is of anything...
KAYBOOM Bush's former top WMD inspector finds no unconventional arms in Iraq and admits "we were almost all wrong." The President and CIA Director Tenet are feeling the pressure...
...commission staff report cited the passport tampering as evidence that prior to 9/11, U.S. officials were not sufficiently diligent in discovering such forgeries. But a veteran counterterrorism hand contends that "without a microscopic forensic examination, a routine inspector wouldn't have ascertained that the stamps weren't valid...
Mesplay, a California air quality inspector, said he was more concerned about the nation’s government than he was about any threat of terrorism...