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To: tejek who wrote (201876)	9/13/2004 6:26:53 PM
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Powell says some in US intelligence knew sourcing on Iraq was suspect Mon Sep 13, 1:27 PM ET Add Politics - AFP to My Yahoo! WASHINGTON (AFP) - US Secretary of State Colin Powell (news - web sites) said some groups within American intelligence knew that sourcing of information used to justify the invasion of Iraq (news - web sites) was suspect but did not inform the authorities. Before the March 2003 invasion, Powell presented the United Nations (news - web sites) with data proclaiming to prove that Iraq was engaged in the development of weapons of mass destruction. The US failure to find weapons of mass destruction has since embarrassed the US administration, damaged its standing around the world and led to sharp criticism of US intelligence community. Powell had said previously that the information he used as the basis for his landmark speech in the United Nations on February 5, 2003 was "not solid." On Monday, following questioning by a Senate panel, Powell said: "What also distressed me is that there were some in the intelligence community who had knowledge that the sourcing was suspect and that was not known to me." He said these groups had put out "disclaimers" about some of the sourcing that were not known to the people who were analysing and making conclusions of the information. Powell supported President George W. Bush (news - web sites)'s call last week for a national intelligence director and said with such a powerful person in charge of US intelligence, "you are less likely to have those kind of mistakes made. "And if you focus this new system, on sharing all information openly and widely, then it is less likely you'll have a kind of situation where I go up there and I am saying something while there are people in one part of the intelligence community not connected well enough to the other part of the intelligence community know at that time I was saying that some of the sourcing was suspect," he said. Powell had indicated previously that he might have refrained from recommending a US invasion of Iraq, if he had had proof that Iraq had no weapons of mass destruction. But he said Bush had taken the right decision to launch military action.