real answer on what actually happened:
CNN 7-10-03CROWLEY: Senator,let me ask you on the general question of weapons of mass destruction, I want to -- we found something that you said in December on the CBS program, and I want you to put it in context for me. As we all know, Bush's move into Iraq, you have been opposed to and voted against.
Here's what you said in December. "We are in possession of what I think to be compelling evidence that Saddam Hussein has a developing capacity for the production and storage of weapons for mass destruction.
How does that square with saying, Look, you know, the president, you know, made this up?
GRAHAM: Well, that statement was based on the briefings that we had had just a few weeks earlier by the CIA and
other intelligence agencies in which they made such a case. Apparently we were not getting the truth, the whole truth and nothing but the truth in terms of what they knew or what they knew was dramatically at variance with the facts.
CROWLEY: So you were misled as well as the president?
GRAHAM: Yes. And I think the other members of Congress who heard what we had every right to assume was an accurate, balanced, taking into account all the information that which supported weapons of mass destruction and that which contradicted that, that we were led to believe that there was compelling evidence to believe that there were such weapons in Iraq.
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Graham, who was on the Senate Intelligence Committee, has repeatedly characterized this administration as deceptive and secretive, even more strongly recently, and made statements that information is being kept classified that should not be. I don't think Graham, who was patently against going into Iraq, would have made this WMD statement for the fun of it.
If the CIA didn't tell them this (Tenet's statement claims they didn't) then maybe "another" intelligence agency did? Rummie's crew at DOD?