ABSTRACT
By late June 2003 the Sherlock Holmes unit of the US Army had not encountered the stockpiles of Iraqi weapons of mass destruction that President Bush had assured us constituted an imminent threat to our security. So, to assuage panic in the White House the CIA began to take the heat. CIA analysts didn’t furnish the president with accurate evidence on Iraq’s alleged weapons, some White House sources leaked. Critics charged that the Agency had bowed to the president’s whim and distorted intelligence to meet political goals. The president, they alleged, wanted to believe that Saddam Hussein had accumulated threatening piles of arms and that he soon planned to supply them to the terrorists who hate us. And the White House even demanded that the CIA furnish the data, whether or not it existed.
