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From Elaine Monaghan in Washington
DAVID KAY, former chief weapons hunter for President Bush, said yesterday that “we were all wrong” about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction and called for a review of US intelligence.
“It turns out we were all wrong, probably, in my judgment. And that is most disturbing,” Dr Kay told the US Senate Armed Services Committee.
Dr Kay resigned as head of the Iraq Survey Group last week with the parting words that he did not believe the stockpiles actually existed. His remarks prompted Mr Bush and his entourage to retreat from their insistence that the weapons on which they had built their case for war would eventually be found.
Dr Kays latest remarks touched a nerve with Republicans who are trying to resist Democrat demands for an inquiry that also studies how Mr Bush and his cabinet used the intelligence to make claims about Saddam's weapons that turned out to be false.
Dr Kay said that he, too, would have drawn the same conclusions as the Bush Administration had he been presented with the same body of intelligence on Saddam's weapons and that those responsible for the false reports must be held accountable.
US intelligence had become too dependent on technology to spy on its enemies and needed to get back to the business of human intelligence.
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