Dr. Alhaddad flew home in mid-September 2002 and had a series of meetings with CIA analysts. She relayed her brother's information that there was no nuclear program. A CIA operative later told Dr. Alhaddad's husband that the agency believed her brother was lying. In all, the book says, some 30 family members of Iraqis made trips to their native country to contact Iraqi weapons scientists, and all of them reported that the programs had been abandoned.
In October 2002, a month after the doctor's trip to Baghdad, the U.S intelligence community issued a National Intelligence Estimate that concluded Iraq was reconstituting its nuclear program.
I'm sure Congress had this information as well as the President. Or no one told the President this "fine point". Maybe Cheney withheld the information.
I'm sure the President made the decision to invade in good faith, well faith anyway. He had plenty of faith in his preconscieved notions so that any contradictory information was rejected out of hand.
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