Some uncertainties remain and some information will continue to emerge about the WMD programs of the former Regime. Reports cited in the Comprehensive Report concerning the possible movement of WMD or WMD materials from Iraq...

Certainly Iraq, even before oil-for-food and sanctions, conducted business by buying influence.

There is evidence they have a lot of desire to connect themselves with either or both the intellectual capital of the previous regime with respect to weapons of mass destruction and quite conceivably materials, …...

We decided that it made no more sense for him to hang around in Baghdad without being able to accomplish his task, … a simple, practical decision.

Where do all these kids who want to blow themselves up come from?

not found evidence to show that Iraq sought uranium from abroad.

Many perceive a grave risk in speaking with us. On one hand, there is a fear of prosecution or arrest. On the other, there is a fear [that] former regime supporters will exact retribution. This...

[No one has a precise answer. The International Atomic Energy Agency dismantled 40 nuclear-research facilities before the U.N. inspectors left Iraq, including three uranium-enrichment sites. Prior to the inspections, Saddam’s stealthiness had been so effective...

We’re coming out of a crisis. We’re trying to keep the temperature down as much as possible.

Over the past 10 months, we have learned that [deposed Iraqi President Saddam Hussein’s] most senior and trusted officials can hold their tongues,

Other people on the team had other obligations, so logistically it would have been difficult to keep them there much longer.

can hold their tongues.

What they do is support the conclusion the regime had the intention of building or rebuilding weapons of mass destruction.

We have found one. We don’t know if that means there are more, … We don’t know if that means they are making their way into hands of those who would use them against the...

It was a great game,

What they do is support the conclusion in the report, which we made in the last couple of years, that the regime had the intention of building and rebuilding weapons of mass destruction, when circumstances...

We destroyed a lot of chemical weapons. They had a facility that was going night and day, like some weird James Bond movie.

It’s the end of a week of inspections that had been planned, and (Ritter) will be returning back to his home office in New York, … It is not intended to send a signal. It...

He is of course of great interest because if one person knows the real story it’s him,

Iraq’s known nuclear scientists are gravitating to the country’s five nuclear research sites. That doesn’t appear to be coincidental.

I’m honored that director Tenet has asked me to tackle this challenging assignment. I’m approaching it with an open mind and am absolutely committed to following the evidence wherever it takes us.

This is a very interesting element of the British presentation. It was on the basis of that kind of information we had from defectors as far back as 1997 that we conducted some of our...

with an open mind.

We need to investigate whether there are more where that came from, wherever that is, and we need to make certain that they’re not finding their way into anti-coalition or terrorist hands.

I also have insisted that the report include as much basic data as reasonable and that it be unclassified, since the tragedy that has been Iraq has exacted such a huge cost for so many...

Given that kind of background, I would be a little bit surprised if it was Saddam Hussein who directed this, … But, on the other hand, I would also be somewhat surprised if there were...