WASHINGTON, June 6 (UPI) -- A top administration official said Friday that a federal report does not conflict with the case that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction.
That report was issued in September 2002, and stated "There is no reliable information on whether Iraq is producing and stockpiling chemical weapons."
CNN quoted Vice Adm. Lowell Jacoby, Defense Intelligence Agency director, as saying that the report showed that his agency "could not specifically pin down individual facilities operating as part of the weapons of mass destruction programs."
But he said the sentence was "not in any way intended to portray the fact that we had doubts that any program existed.
The summary concluded that there was "no reliable information" that Iraq was producing new chemical weapons, but said that intelligence suggested the nation was distributing chemical weapons in advance of a possible war.
