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About them this week? >> i wasn't fully briefed. i've been briefed on a number of programs. we've been looking at syria, north korea, satellite intelligence and a lot of different intelligence programs. i knew generally about the programs. and there was a discussion about it. the information was available to all senators. i was with a senator on thursday who basically -- he's a guy who's been skeptical about this. he said, we were skeptical about this. people did have an opportunity to debate this. i knew the outlines. i wasn't shocked by it. it remained me of the inspector

>> the pentagon telling the secretary that we may know nothing about iraq's intelligence programs. of course, in the book what rumsfeld does is he falls back and quotes the nie, the nie that the cia had coordinated and put together that said that they did have nuclear weapons that suggested they did a nuclear program. what he omits is -- >> no, no, he quotes. this is from the nie report of 2002. though we assess that saddam hussein does not yet have nuclear weapons or sufficient material to make any he remains intent on acquiring them. it's intent. >> artful lie worded. >> you went to grade sc...

Declassified. >> why isn't this on the front page of the "new york times," lies, why don't they do it now? >> the pentagon telling the secretary that we may know nothing about iraq's intelligence programs. of course, in the book what rumsfeld does is he falls back and quotes the nie, the nie that the cia had coordinated and put together that said that they did have nuclear weapons that suggested they did a nuclear program. what he omits is -- >> no, no, he quotes. this is from the nie report of 2002. though we assess that saddam hussein does not yet have nuclear weapons or sufficient material ...

Right? >> with that said, this new document that rumsfeld himself -- >> why isn't this on the front page of the "new york times", lies to have -- >> the pentagon telling the secretary that we may know nothing about iraq's intelligence programs. in the book what rumsfeld does is he falls back and quotes the nie, the nie that the cia had coordinated and put together that said that they did have nuclear weapons that suggested they did a nuclear program. what he omits is -- >> no he quotes. this is from the nie report of 2002, theology we assess saddam does not yet have nuclear weapons or sufficie...

Seem plausible. you can spend time on that. moving it around from agency to agency, from type of work to other types of work and just see where the problems are. >> we look forward to part two and three and all the other parts coming along. thanks for joining pups. >> thank you, wolf. >> we'll have to dig deeper with our national security contributor fran townsend. she worked in the justice department during the clinton administration and she's a member of the cia's external advisory board. you've had a chance fran to read part one of this lengthy article two years in the works. was it accurat...