Political Quotes

“here we have NIE key judgments: In view of most agencies, Baghdad is reconstituting its nuclear weapons program. Here is the interview, or here is his testimony in front of the Senate Committee on Armed Services last week or a week and a half ago. The NIE concluded that Iraq could build its first nuclear weapons when it acquires efficient weapons-grade material. Do you think that is accurate? Kay: Yes. You have to realize that this was a country that had designed and gone through a decade-long nuclear program. They knew the secrets. Mr. Speaker, much of the assessment that was done, the National Intelligence Estimate, was pretty accurate. Obviously, the expectation of finding stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction, I thought we would find them quicker. We have not found them. Dr. Kay believes that there is a high probability that they do not exist and we may not find them, but recognizes that he has talked about and he has seen the Iraqis' ability to gut, and they looted their information files and burned the records, destroyed the records. They were great at denial and deception. They loved to bury things. Not only did Saddam Hussein go in a spider hole, but they took Mig-29s, pulled them out in the countryside, dug a hole, had the cockpit open and filled them with sand and dirt and buried them. There were things that were moved to Syria.”