Raw Story has uncovered 2001 testimony by then CIA Director George Tenet that Iraq posed no immediate threat to its neighbors.
Tenet told Congress in February 2001 that Iraq was "probably" pursuing chemical and biological weapons programs but that the CIA had no direct evidence that Iraq had actually obtained such weapons.
However, such caveats as "may" and "probably" were removed from intelligence reports by key members of the Bush administration immediately after 9/11 when discussing Iraq.
"We do not have any direct evidence that Iraq has used the period since (Operation) Desert Fox to reconstitute its WMD programs," Tenet said in an agency report to Congress Feb. 7, 2001. "Moreover, the automated video monitoring systems installed by the UN at known and suspect WMD facilities in Iraq are still not operating... Having lost this on-the-ground access, it is more difficult for the UN or the U.S. to accurately assess the current state of Iraq's WMD programs."
Another nail in the coffin of Bush's Friday speech.