Saddam Hussein used 'WMD' as a deterrent to Iran and it backfired on him as intelligence agencies believed he really had it

NY Times:

The Day I Realized I Would Never Find Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq

As an intelligence officer assigned to the Iraq Survey Group, I stumbled into the most revealing truth of the conflict.
While the US did find some traces of WMD in Iraq they never located the mass quantities that the CIA and other intelligence agencies thought were there.  Because the CIA believed it and told President Bush it was a threat the US went to war in Iraq.  Too many on the left and in the media blamed the President for doing so and Bush never blamed the CIA where some in the Deep State turned on him for following their intelligence.

The CIA still sometimes appears to be a rogue agency.  It looks like that under Brennan it was one of the primary movers of the Russian collusion hoax that was weaponized by Democrats and the media to make false attacks on the Trump campaign and the President.

Rather than pursuing a bogus impeachment effort against the President, the country should be focused on bringing those responsible for the miscalculations and false attacks to justice. 

We need an intelligence service this country can depend on.  In the last 20 years, the CIA has not looked dependable.  Too often it looks like an agency that is hostile to Republican Presidents.

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