Deutch Sees Consequences in Failed Search for Arms (washingtonpost.com): "Former CIA director John M. Deutch told Congress yesterday that failure to find chemical or biological weapons in Iraq would represent 'an intelligence failure . . . of massive proportions.'
'It means that . . . leaders of the American public based [their] support for the most serious foreign policy judgments -- the decision to go to war -- on an incorrect intelligence judgment,' Deutch said during testimony before the House Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence.
The impact, he said, would be felt 'the next time military intervention is judged necessary to combat the spread of weapons of mass destruction -- for example in North Korea -- there will be skepticism about the quality of our intelligence.'"

There will be skepticism. But maybe not just about the intelligence. I for one would be highly skeptical of the Bush administration's use of it, as well.
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