“[A senior Administration official says that telephone calls and e-mails exchanged between several suspected terrorists and intercepted by the U.S. and foreign intelligence agencies pointed to a plot inside the U.S. using nerve gas, poisons or radiological devices.] It wasn't just chatter, ... It was a pattern.”
“We are taking a look at the use of intelligence, and we're taking a look at the role the Defense Department played, and we're looking at prewar Iraq ... in a careful and deliberate way, because we want to get it right.”
“Before the war, the U.S. intelligence community told the president as well as the Congress and the public that Saddam Hussein had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and if left unchecked would probably have a nuclear weapon during this decade,”
“I can tell you, however, that the committee has yet to hear from any intelligence official expressing such concerns, ... If any officials believe, however, that they have been pressured to alter their assessment, they have an obligation, and I encourage them to contact the committee.”
