This was exactly why I didn't buy the case in the first place.

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[The Sept. 25 letter to Mr. Tenet from the House committee leaders] points to a "dearth" of underlying intelligence about Iraq after 1998 and says intelligence experts held to longstanding assessments about Iraq's capability. "The absence of proof that chemical and biological weapons and their related development programs had been destroyed was considered as proof that they continued to exist," it said.

New Criticism on Prewar Use of Intelligence, emphasis added.