Ex-Arms Monitor Urges an Inquiry on Iraqi Threat

Dr. David Kay, who stepped down recently as the head of the Iraqi Survey Group, has announced that his organization has yet to find evidence that Saddam Hussein's regime indeed possessed weapons of mass destruction in Iraq. Instead, Kay expressed concern over the faulty intelligence that led the Bush Administration to justify a war against Saddam Hussein on the basis of such a program. The lack of proof - much less a smoking gun - has encouraged some critics to argue that President Bush purposefully misled the public as to the real threat from Saddam Hussein. Dr. Kay disagrees and instead blames the intelligence community for having outdated and inaccurate information. He finds this lack of reliable information far more concerning than the possibility that the Bush administration may have lied. Though President Bush still maintains that it is too early to conclude that Saddam Hussein had no weapons of mass destruction, Dr. Kay considers the job as good as finished. Now it may be time to move to the harder questions of how American intelligence failed. - YaleGlobal