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...director, saying that is not "a career objective" and adding that "nobody's ever asked me who's in a position to give me the job." Goss insisted the committee can't fully review the pre-war intelligence until the Iraq Survey Group, whose 1,200 inspectors under David Kay are currently scouring Iraq for evidence of weapons of mass destruction and terrorism links, has made more progress in its work. "That process is still ahead of us because we haven't pulled the curtain back" in Iraq, Goss said...
...Kay is due this week to present a preliminary report into his group's findings. Few observers expect that Kay will reveal any startling finds, although some caution that he may have been holding back a surprise...
...near, even some Republicans - including Rep. Doug Bereuter of Nebraska, who a source said complained in last week's closed hearing - are privately unhappy with the progress of the panel's Iraq intelligence review. Through an aide, Bereuter would say only that he had complained about the idea that Kay might report to Senate intelligence and not the House panel this week...
...Group's report, expected in the next two weeks, may have been raised by administration officials who, when facing a clamor over the failure to find weapons of mass destruction early in the summer, called for patience and expressed confidence that the group led by former UNSCOM official David Kay would prove the existence of such weapons. Subsequently, officials began to downshift somewhat, stressing that evidence would be found of programs to build weapons, but not necessarily any actual weapons. But Kay himself may also have contributed to raising expectations during his Capitol Hill report-back in July, when...
...Kay has, more recently, strongly hinted that his report won't contain smoking gun evidence - the 1,200 member Iraq Survey Group has found no actual prohibited weapons in Iraq, he has told U.S. legislators. Instead, he's expected to offer evidence in support of the argument that whether or not Saddam had actual weapons of mass destruction, he retained the capability and intent to restart his programs once freed of the shackles and scrutiny of the UN sanctions program. One senior U.S. official told the Financial Times, "They won't find weapons but that was never the issue...