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60 Minutes: CIA Official Reveals Bush, Cheney, Rice Were Personally Told Iraq Had No WMD in Fall 2002 Think Progress | April 24 2006 Tonight on 60 Minutes, Tyler Drumheller, the former chief of the CIA’s Europe division, revealed that in the fall of 2002, President Bush, Vice President Cheney, then-National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice and others were told by CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq’s foreign minister — who agreed to act as a spy for the United States — had reported that Iraq had no active weapons of mass destruction program. BRADLEY: According to Drumheller, CIA Director George Tenet delivered the news about the Iraqi foreign minister at a high level meeting at the White House. DRUMHELLER: The President, the Vice President, Dr. Rice… BRADLEY: And at that meeting…? DRUMHELLER: They were enthusiastic because they said they were excited that we had a high-level penetration of Iraqis. BRADLEY: And what did this high level source tell you? DRUMHELLER: He told us that they had no active weapons of mass destruction program. BRADLEY: So, in the fall of 2002, before going to war, we had it on good authority from a source within Saddam’s inner circle that he didn’t have an active program for weapons of mass destruction? DRUMHELLER: Yes. BRADLEY: There’s no doubt in your mind about that? DRUMHELLER: No doubt in my mind at all. BRADLEY: It directly contradicts, though, what the President and his staff were telling us. DRUMHELLER: The policy was set. The war in Iraq was coming, and they were looking for intelligence to fit into the policy, to justify the policy. Read the full transcript HERE. ---------------------------------------------------
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