Turns out the sources weren't so good back when the admin claimed those squeaky clean trailers found in Iraq were actually mobile bioweapons labs.
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The Bush administration's prewar assertion that Saddam Hussein had a fleet of mobile labs that could produce bioweapons rested largely on information from an Iraqi defector working with another government who was never interviewed by U.S. intelligence officers, according to current and former senior intelligence officials and congressional experts who have studied classified documents.
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The claims about the mobile facilities remain unverified, however, and now U.S. officials are trying to get access to the Iraqi engineer to verify his story, the sources said, particularly because intelligence officials have discovered that he is related to a senior official in Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress, a group of Iraqi exiles who actively encouraged the United States to invade Iraq.
Powell also cited another defector in his speech, an Iraqi major who was made available to U.S. officials by the INC, as supporting the engineer's story. The major, however, had already been "red-flagged" by the Defense Intelligence Agency as having provided questionable information about Iraq's mobile biological program. But DIA analysts did not pass along that cautionary note, and the major was cited in an October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq and was mentioned in Powell's speech, officials said.
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...-2004Mar4.html
I sure wish we hadn't thrown our hat in with this INC crew. It may have been that there wasn't much of a selection of Iraqi exile opposition groups to choose from, but even so it sure seems like they've done nothing but take our govt for a ride this whole time.
