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October 2002 NIE on Iraq WMDs
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The October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate titled 'Iraq's Continuing Programs for Weapons of Mass Destruction' was the flawed consensus assessment used to justify the Iraq invasion.
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George Tenet
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Under Tenet's leadership, the intelligence community produced the October 2002 NIE asserting Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program and had biological and chemical weapons. Tenet suggested basing Powell's UN speech on the NIE as 'the definitive consensus view.' The Senate later found the key judgments were 'either overstated, or were not supported by, the actual intelligence.'
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