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*Warren P. Strobel and Jonathan S. Landay, [http://www.realcities.com/mld/krwashington/news/special_packages/6222067.htm Internal review backs CIA on Iraq, but notes lack of details], Knight-Ridder, July 2, 2003: "Former CIA deputy director Richard Kerr, who is leading the study, said he found that the spy agency was "surprisingly consistent" in reporting during the year before the U.S. invasion of Iraq that Baghdad was trying to develop chemical, biological and nuclear weapons. ... But Kerr, in a telephone interview with Knight Ridder, said the status and locations of those weapons programs was 'harder to conclude.'".
*David Corn, [http://www.thenation.com/capitalgames/index.mhtml?bid=3&pid=800 More Evidence Bush Misled Nation], ''The Nation'', July 7, 2003: "The day before Independence Day, Richard Kerr, a former CIA deputy director who is leading a review of the CIA's prewar intelligence on Iraq's unconventional weapons, held a series of interviews with journalists and revealed that his unfinished inquiry had so far found that the intelligence on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction had been somewhat ambiguous, that analysts at the CIA and other intelligence services had received pressure from the [[Bush administration]], and that the CIA had not found any proof of operational ties between [[al Qaeda]] and [[Saddam Hussein]]'s regime. ... In other words, Bush lied."
*John Diamond, [http://www.usatoday.com/news/world/iraq/2003-11-19-cia-iraq_x.htm CIA will examine raw data on Iraq], ''USA Today'', November 19, 2003: "The probe, which has been conducted by a four-member team of former senior CIA analysts since early this year, was broadened this week. It will now extend into 20 volumes of raw intelligence reports, such as electronic intercepts, spy satellite photos and reports from human sources. Until now, the team had limited its work to a far smaller volume of finished intelligence reports and assessments. ... The expanded probe was disclosed by two intelligence officials who asked not be named, and was confirmed by Richard Kerr, former CIA deputy director and head of the four-member team."
