Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored - Yahoo! News

Ex-CIA agent says WMD intelligence ignored - Yahoo! News: "Fri Apr 21, 5:39 PM ET

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The
CIA had evidence
Iraq possessed no weapons of mass destruction six months before the 2003 U.S.-led invasion but was ignored by a White House intent on ousting
Saddam Hussein, a former senior CIA official said according to CBS.
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Tyler Drumheller, who headed CIA covert operations in Europe during the run-up to the Iraq war, said intelligence opposing administration claims of a WMD threat came from a top Iraqi official who provided the U.S. spy agency with other credible information.

The source 'told us that there were no active weapons of mass destruction programs,' Drumheller said in a CBS interview to be aired on Sunday on the network's news magazine, '60 Minutes.'

'The (White House) group that was dealing with preparation for the Iraq war came back and said they were no longer interested,' he was quoted as saying in interview excerpts released by CBS on Friday.

'We said: 'Well, what about the intel?' And they said: 'Well, this isn't about intel anymore. This is about regime change',' added Drumheller, whose CIA operation was assigned the task of debriefing the Iraqi official."