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February 2, 2003: State Department’s Intelligence Bureau Finds More ‘Unverifiable’ Items in Powell’s Speech

2003-02-02

The State Department’s Bureau of Intelligence and Research (INR) finds seven more items (see January 31, 2003) in the latest draft of Secretary of State Colin Powell’s upcoming presentation to the UN Security Council (see February 5, 2003) that it terms as unreliable or unverifiable. Three are removed, four stay. [Unger, 2007, pp. 281]