US officials knew in May Iraq possessed no WMD

From the London Guardian via Eschaton:

The new revelation came as White House sources indicated that President George Bush was considering establishing an investigation into the intelligence, despite rejecting an inquiry the previous day.

The disclosure that US military survey teams sent to visit suspected sites of WMD, and intelligence interviews with Iraqi scientists and officials, had concluded so quickly that no major weapons or facilities would be found is certain to produce serious new embarrassment on both sides of the Atlantic.

According to the time-line provided by the US sources, it would mean that Number 10 would have been aware of the US doubts that weapons would be found before the outbreak of the feud between Number 10 and Andrew Gilligan, and before the exposure of Dr David Kelly as Gilligan's source for his claims that the September dossier had been 'sexed up' to exaggerate the Iraqi threat.

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Of course, I, too, knew back in May that there were no WMDs in Iraq, but, then, nobody listens to me. This article makes one thing clear: the post-invasion search for weapons of mass destruction really was very much like OJ Simpson's search for the "real killer." That is, it was a bunch of horse shit from the get go.

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