Proof presure applied to detainees for information on WMDs

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STATEMENT BY DAVID KAY ON THE INTERIM PROGRESS REPORT ON THE ACTIVITIES OF THE IRAQ SURVEY GROUP (ISG)
BEFORE THE
HOUSE PERMANENT SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE,
THE HOUSE COMMITTEE ON APPROPRIATIONS, SUBCOMMITTEE ON DEFENSE, AND THE
SENATE SELECT COMMITTEE ON INTELLIGENCE

October 2, 2003

Detainees and co-operative sources indicate that beginning in 2000 Saddam ordered the development of ballistic missiles with ranges of at least 400km and up to 1000km and that measures to conceal these projects from UNMOVIC were initiated in late-2002

According to a cooperating senior detainee

ISG has obtained testimony from both detainees and cooperative sources

one high-level detainee has recently claimed that Iraq retained a small quantity of Scud-variant missiles

The bad news is that we have to do this under conditions that ensure that our work will take time and impose serious physical dangers on those who are asked to carry it out.
Why should we take the time and run the risk to ensure that our conclusions reflect the truth to the maximum extent that is possible given the conditions in post-conflict Iraq?

http://www.cia.gov/cia/public_affairs/speeches/2003/david_kay_10022003.html



C.I.A. Letter to Senate on Baghdad's Intentions
October 07, 2002
Letter dated Oct. 7 to Senator Bob Graham, Democrat of Florida and chairman of the Intelligence Committee, by George J. Tenet, director of central intelligence, about decisions to declassify material related to the debate about Iraq:

Our understanding of the relationship between Iraq and al-Qa'ida is evolving and is based on sources of varying reliability. Some of the information we have received comes from detainees, including some of high rank

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Iraq's weapons of mass destruction: What we now know

Much of the information was given to Powell during hours of meetings with his aides at CIA headquarters. It was an extraordinary public revelation of the CIA’s tools – defectors, informants, intercepts, procurement records, photographs and comments of detainees seized in Afghanistan and elsewhere since Sept. 11, 2001.

The Bush administration did not press the CIA to exaggerate the claims. However, the CIA owes Bush an explanation for the flawed prewar intelligence. U.S. intelligence


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Iraq: U.S. Treatment of Detainees Shrouded in Secrecy

Human Rights Watch
The United States has failed to provide clear or consistent information on its treatment of some 10,000 civilians detained in Iraq, Human Rights Watch said today.
However, the United States still fails to provide information on the whereabouts of all detainees as required under the Geneva Conventions.
http://www.worldrevolution.org/projects/webguide/article.asp?ID=1236