TY  - BOOK
AU  - Huisken,Ronald
ED  - Australian National University.
TI  - We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud: intelligence on Iraq's WMD 
T2  - Working paper / the Strategic and Defence Studies Centre
SN  - 0731554574
AV  - UA870 .A9 no.390 2004
U1  - 327.120973 22
PY  - 2004///
CY  - Canberra
PB  - Strategic and Defence Studies Centre, Australian National University
KW  - Intelligence service
KW  - United States
KW  - Iraq War, 2003-2011
KW  - Weapons of mass destruction
KW  - Iraq
KW  - Politics and government
KW  - 2001-
KW  - Australia
N1  - "June, 2004."; Includes bibliographical references
N2  - "In the second half of 2002, when the US intelligence community was tasked to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's WMD capacities, the administration had been already been saying for over six months that Iraq under Saddam posed an intolerable risk that the US was determined to address. In other words, intelligence was catching up with policy. Moreover, the administration's determination to proceed in the face of widespread opposition meant that the stakes in terms of US credibility and prestige were seen in Washington as having become dauntingly large. In the event, the intelligence community slid over the fact that it had too few 'dots' to make confident judgments on WMD in Iraq."--Abstract from SDSC web site; "In the second half of 2002, when the US intelligence community was tasked to prepare a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq's WMD capacities, the administration had been already been saying for over six months that Iraq under Saddam posed an intolerable risk that the US was determined to address. In other words, intelligence was catching up with policy. Moreover, the administration's determination to proceed in the face of widespread opposition meant that the stakes in terms of US credibility and prestige were seen in Washington as having become dauntingly large. In the event, the intelligence community slid over the fact that it had too few 'dots' to make confident judgments on WMD in Iraq."--Abstract from SDSC web site
ER  -