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Desk and he said thats the script of my presentation at the united nations. it came from the vice presidents office. it was junk. it was pure junk. i was in charge of putting it together. >> powell and wilkerson tear up the original 48-page script and start over with a team from the state department and cia. director george tenet suggests they base their presentation on the national intelligence estimate, which unbeknownst to powell is a deeply flawed document. still, he is wary. >> we went into...

Warrior, to make the case against saddam at the united nations. hes given a week to pull that presentation together. >> he walked in my office with a sheath of papers in his hand, and he threw them down on my desk and he said thats the script of my presentation at the united states. it came from the vice presidents office. >> it was junk. it was pure junk. i was in charge of putting it together. >> powell and wilkerson tear up the original 48-page script and start over with a team from the state...

True. >> its a real sleight of hand. and i think its kind to call that disingenuous. >> on the heels of the presidents speech, the administration plays its ultimate trump card. it tasks colin powell, its most public trusted face, its most reluctant warrior to make the case against saddam hussein at the united nations. he is given a week to pull that presentation together. >> he walked into my office with a sheaf of papers in my hand and he threw them down on the desk and said thats the script of...

And i think its kind to call that disingenuous. >> on the heels of the presidents speech, the administration plays its ultimate trump card. it tasks colin powell, its most public trusted face, its most reluctant warrior to make the case against saddam hussein at the united nations. he is given a week to pull that presentation together. >> he walked into my office with a sheaf of papers in my hand and he threw them down on the desk and said thats the script of my presentation at the united nation...

The national intelligence estimate, which unbeknownst to powell is a deeply flawed document. still, he is wary. >> we went into a room. he slammed the door shut. he said "sit down." and he sat down. we were the only two people in the room. he looked at me and said this [ bleep ] of contacts with al qaeda has got to be taken out. its [ bleep ]. and i said i agree with you. lets take it out. done. within a half an hour, tenet comes in and explosively tells about this high level al qaeda operative ...

Iranian scientists work across multiple disciplines, that can be explained away. one of the most concerning sites is thure rainum construction site hidden deep in the mountains, latest intelligence shows that security will have doubled around the site, its scale cannot be explained by any known civilian nuclear energy use. this report from the u.n.s international atomic energy agency comes one month after an iranian american was accused of working with iran qads force to eliminate a diplomat, te...

Reason to give iraq the margin of democracy. this was a major part of the argument for iraq, and this guy totally lied. do you not want to reach through that screen and strangle that guy? >> you know, the intelligence community created the national intelligence estimate. colin powell is an honorable man. he understood intelligence products. he worked hard to prepare those remarks to the united nations. he believed every word he said and what he was basing -- >> of course he did. he said, look, g...

That screen and strangle that guy? >> you know, the intelligence community created the national intelligence estimate. colin powell is an honorable man. he understood intelligence products. he worked hard to prepare those remarks to the united nations. he believed every word he said and what he was basing -- >> of course he did. he said, look, go ask the defense intelligence agency. youre as close as i can get. how did this guys information become gospel when in fact he was completely lying, and...

Efforts to get sanctions appear from the administrations point of view to be moving forward but from others, saying china and russia dont appear signed on, at least yet. >> well, the iaea report indicates how embarrassing it is if the u.s. is softer on iran than even the iaea, which is famously soft on iran. you talked about the marrying of the weapon on to a missile, thats called weaponnization. well, the u.s. report, the nie, the national intelligence estimate of 2007, had said that the irania...

On top of each other as the efforts to get sanctions appear from the administrations point of view to be moving forward but from others, saying china and russia dont appear signed on, at least yet. >> well, the iaea report indicates how embarrassing it is if the u.s. is softer on iran than even the iaea, which is famously soft on iran. you talked about the marrying of the weapon on to a missile, thats called weaponnization. well, the u.s. report, the nie, the national intelligence estimate of 20...