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After weeks of pressure to explain what it knew about the alleged weapons of mass destruction (WMD) in Iraq before launching the war there, the Bush Administration has placed the issue in CIA Director George Tenet's lap. Administration officials have been subtly pointing the finger in his direction, saying all their knowledge of Iraq's weapons programs came from Tenet's agency. That apparently didn't apply to a British intelligence report, cited by President Bush in his State of the Union speech, that claimed Iraq had tried to purchase uranium from an unnamed nation later identified as Niger...
...Bush has put Tenet in the hot seat, placing him in charge of the hunt for the WMD. Tenet announced last week that he was bringing in former U.N. weapons inspector David Kay as his adviser in the search. Sources tell TIME that Kay will be in overall charge of the operation of 1,300 soldiers and civilians, which was previously overseen by the Pentagon, and will report directly to Tenet...
...grounded the case for war. Last week his former International Development Minister, Clare Short, accused him of "honorable deception" - lying to get backing for a conflict he had secretly promised George W. Bush to fight. Downing St. officials say they're confident the skeptics will look stupid when wmd are found, that Blair didn't lie and that polls show voters think the war was worth fighting regardless. But the shambolic occupation means the political peril of his central foreign-policy gamble - standing shoulder to shoulder with Bush - persists. The British "had nothing to do with the way the occupation...
...door hearings last Thursday, the State Department officials hinted they felt pressure to toe the White House's hard line but insisted they had not tailored intelligence. Some observers, however, said such perceptions by officials at State - who were widely known as behind-the-scenes skeptics of the Iraq WMD intelligence - may simply have resulted from the at-times heated internal policy debate in the months leading...
...Meanwhile, according to a Pentagon official, those doing the digging in Iraq say they have recently found small pieces of the WMD puzzle. Not yet enough to convince the public, perhaps, but enough to get the WMD hunters excited...