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In return, Mr. Chalabi provided intelligence on weapons that one senior American intelligence official described earlier this week as "useless at best, and misleading at worst".
The intelligence on weapons of mass destruction, which was one of the Bush administration's main rationales for the invasion, proved to be devastatingly wrong.
And he went beyond the 9/11 panel in one way by proposing a post to coordinate intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
"But they've taken the intelligence on weapons and expanded it beyond what was justified".
Indeed, the report contains many useful recommendations for improving intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
Chalabi, who is notorious for his role in promoting flawed intelligence on weapons of mass destruction before the war, is now a deputy Prime Minister.
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President Bush instructed his intelligence chiefs to verify the Israeli claims; the disastrous intelligence failure on weapons of mass destruction in Iraq was fresh in everyone's mind.
For example, I was just listening to Secretary of State Colin Powell describe how he had briefings from the intelligence community on weapons of mass destruction.
Martin Indyk, a former staff member of the National Security Council under President Bill Clinton, recalled that while monitoring Iraq inspections in the 1990's, he frequently went to bed at night convinced that Washington had solid intelligence information on weapons sites.
The evidence of what the United States knew about Iraq's weapons programs -- like almost all intelligence on the weapons programs of closed societies -- was murky and inconsistent.
Mr. Tenet's public appearance before Congress was his first since the Iraq invasion last March, and it exposed him to sharp questions from senators who asked about the gap between prewar intelligence on illicit weapons with the fact that no such weapons had been found.
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