Iraq war the greatest intelligence failure in living memory

Iraq war: the greatest intelligence failure in living memory - Telegraph: "Ten years on from the invasion, Iraq remains the most divisive war in recent history and the greatest intelligence failure in living memory. Much of the key intelligence that was used to justify the war was based on fabrication, wishful thinking and lies - and as subsequent investigations showed, it was dramatically wrong. Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction (WMD). But crucially, there was intelligence that proved to be right. And, as a forensic, six-month investigation we conducted for BBC Panorama has revealed, it came from two highly-placed human sources at the very top of Saddam’s regime. Both said that Iraq had no active WMD. Both were ignored or dismissed. . . . Murray says his key message was that Saddam did not have any serious, active current WMD stockpile or programmes. Murray believes his report had been used selectively. By whom and at what level he does not know, but he thinks he knows why. He says the intelligence was cherry picked. ‘Very bad intelligence got to the leadership very quickly but other intelligence just didn’t make it.’. . . ." (read more at link above)

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