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Kay: No evidence Iraq stockpiled WMDs
Former chief U.S. inspector faults intelligence agencies
CNN) -- Two days after resigning as the Bush administration's top weapons inspector in Iraq, David Kay said Sunday that his group found no evidence Iraq had stockpiled unconventional weapons before the U.S.-led invasion in March.

He said U.S. intelligence services owe President Bush an explanation for having concluded that Iraq had.

"My summary view, based on what I've seen, is we're very unlikely to find large stockpiles of weapons," he said on National Public Radio's "Weekend Edition." "I don't think they exist."

http://www.cnn.com/2004/WORLD/meast/01/25/sprj.nirq.kay/

David Kay: Exclusive interview
Chemical, biological, nuclear programs ‘rudimentary’
David Kay, who resigned last week as the chief U.S. weapons inspector in Iraq, now says he didn't find stockpiles of WMD — or evidence of a nuclear program well under way in Saddam Hussein's Iraq — and he blames it on a greatly flawed intelligence system and analysis.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/4066462/

World
Iraq Arms Inspector Casts Doubt on WMD Claims
Kay's Stance Differs with White House View of Situation in Iraq

January 25, 2004 · David Kay, who recently resigned as head of the U.S. group searching for weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, now says he doesn't think stockpiles of such weapons existed. He no longer believes that Iraq had a large-scale production program in the 1990s.

The Bush administration disagrees, and stands by its previous assessments.

http://www.npr.org/templates/story/story.php?storyId=1615880

From CNN's Dead Wrong:

KAY: I was asked to not go public with my resignation until after the president's State of the Union address which -- this is Washington and in general -- I've been around long enough so I know in January you don't try to get bad news out before the president gives his State of the Union address.

It is time to give the fundamental analysis of how we got here ...

ENSOR: Eight days after the president's January 2004 State of the Union, David Kay testifies before the Senate Armed Services Committee.

KAY: My view was that the best evidence I had seen was Iraq indeed had weapons of mass destruction.

It turns out we were all wrong and that is most disturbing.

If the intelligence community had said there were no weapons there, would the policymakers have decided for other reasons, regime change, human rights, whatever, to go to war. All you can say is we'll never know, because the system said, apparently, it's a slam dunk there are weapons there.
http://transcripts.cnn.com/TRANSCRIPTS/0508/21/cp.01.html