CIA never said Saddam 'an imminent threat'

CIA director George Tenet said today Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed “no imminent threat” in the months leading up the invasion.

CIA director George Tenet said today Saddam Hussein’s Iraq posed “no imminent threat” in the months leading up the invasion.

But Saddam was determined to develop a nuclear weapon and had called his closest advisers together to berate them for not having done so.

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