“In the run-up to the invasion of Iraq 10 years ago, the CIA and other intelligence services confidently asserted that Saddam Hussein’s regime had stockpiles of weapons of mass destruction. But it turned out the intelligence community was ‘dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction,’ according to an official inquiry, the Silberman-Robb report. The spy services failed to collect solid information, botched their analysis and reached conclusions based on flawed assumptions instead of evidence, making it ‘one of the most public — and most damaging — intelligence failures in recent American history,’ the 2005 report said.”
http://www.rawstory.com/rs/2013/03/15/u-s-spying-still-under-shadow-of-iraq-intelligence-failures/