Secrecy News: Iraqi WMD & Dot-Connecting; Super Bowl Security
Secrecy News: Iraqi WMD &
Dot-Connecting; Super Bowl Security
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Saddam
Hussein'sIraq
was engaged in "weapons of mass destruction-related program activities,"
President Bush declared awkwardly in the State of the Union address
on January 20, without acknowledging that he was again redefining
the magnitude of the former Iraqi threat.
The President should have confronted the clear disparity
between the pre-war intelligence on Iraq and the post-war
findings, said Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), ranking member of the
House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
"If 9/11
was a failure to connect the dots, it appears that the Intelligence
Community, in the case of Iraq's WMD, connected the dots to the wrong
conclusions," Rep. Harman said in a speech last week.
"If our intelligence products had been better, I believe many
policymakers, including me, would have had a far clearer
picture of the sketchiness of our sources on Iraq's WMD
programs, and our lack of certainty about Iraq's chemical,
biological and nuclear capabilities," she said.
In other national security secrecy-related program activities,
Space Imaging today released a high resolution satellite image
of Reliant Stadium in Houston, Texas, site of the upcoming
Super Bowl on February 1.
The image, which also features the (former) Houston Astrodome and
vicinity, was collected by Space Imaging's Ikonos satellite on January
19. See the photo here.
