Yes, that's him. I had not read that interview, but I found the interview I was referring to, and linked to it earlier:
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Interesting that in the interview you posted, he says:
Iraq is a small country, but we were unable to find everything until Saddam's son-in-law defected. But even in this case we have not "discovered" everything.
I hope we acted on that information. We have a terrible history of letting informants get away, and not acting on their information in a timely way. Dr. Khidir Hamza, the scientist who was building Saddam's nuclear bomb, eventually escaped Iraq and contacted the CIA at a border post. He told the CIA he would give them all the information they wanted on Iraq's nuclear program, and all the places where they were hiding material. All he wanted was for the U.S. to get his family out, because when Saddam found that he had given them information, they would all be killed. The CIA didn't believe him, turned him away, and he had to find asylum in Lybia of all places. Eventually, a year later, they realized the mistake they had made and brought him to the US, but Saddam had a year in which to move his stuff around. This is all detailed in his book "Saddam's Bombmaker." Here is an interview with him:
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