US intelligence ‘dead wrong’ on WMD in Iraq

US INTELLIGENCE on Iraq was “dead wrong”, dealing a blow to American credibility that will take years to undo, a presidential commission reported yesterday.

It also concluded that spymasters still know disturbingly little about nuclear programmes in countries like Iran and North Korea.

The commission’s bluntly written report, based on more than a year of investigations, offered a damning assessment of the intelligence that President George W Bush used to launch the Iraq war two years ago and warned that flaws are still all too common throughout spy agencies.