I hope they're better at this than they are at finding CIA outing leaks or anthrax mailers...
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WASHINGTON, Jan. 26 — Bush administration officials insisted today that the Iraq war was justified, but they promised further review of prewar intelligence after the outgoing chief American weapons inspector said that he was almost certain that Iraq had no significant banned weaponry before the war.
In interviews over the weekend, the lead inspector, David A. Kay, said that he did not believe that Iraq had significant biological, chemical or nuclear weapons in the days before the American-led invasion in March, and he did not believe that any such weapons had been shipped to Syria.
The White House spokesman, Scott McClellan, said today that the C.I.A. had already begun reviewing its prewar analyses. But final conclusions, he said, could not be made until the team seeking weapons evidence in Iraq, the Iraq Survey Group, completed its work.
"We want to compare the intelligence before the war with what the Iraq Survey Group learns," he said. "Their mission is ongoing."
Mr. McClellan repeatedly asserted that in view of what he said was a "dangerous and gathering threat" from Iraq, the war had been justified.
Meanwhile, two senior American officials traveling separately abroad, as well as officials of two important allies of the United States in the war, Britain and Australia, continued to defend the decision to overthrow Saddam Hussein.
One of the officials, Attorney General John Ashcroft, used strong language in Vienna, where he met with Austrian officials, but was careful not to explicitly assert that Saddam had possessed banned weapons before the war.
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