Event
Powell's address to the U.N. Security Council
Colin Powell's presentation of the U.S. case on Iraq's weapons to the Security Council, 5 February 2003.
- Dates
- 5 Feb 2003
Connections 6
involved
- Colin Powell speaker Primary record 1
- George Tenet vetted the speech with Powell Primary record 2
- New York City where the Security Council sat Primary record 3
appears in
- Senate report on prewar intelligence assessments on Iraq (2004) the Estimate behind it Primary record 4
- Senate report on officials' public statements about Iraq (2008) checked claim by claim Primary record 5
- WMD Commission report (2005) Curveball's reporting reached it Primary record 2
Timeline 1 date
- 5 Feb 2003 Powell's address to the U.N. Security Council
Proof 5 sources
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U.S. Secretary of State Colin Powell Addresses the U.N. Security Council (transcript, 5 February 2003), The White House (George W. Bush administration archive), 5 Feb 2003.
Primary record
My colleagues, every statement I make today is backed up by sources, solid sources. These are not assertions.
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Report to the President of the United States, Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction (31 March 2005), Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction, 31 Mar 2005.
Primary record
Until late in the night on February 4, Secretary Powell and Mr. Tenet continued to finalize aspects of the speech.
These doubts never found their way to Secretary Powell, who was at that time attempting to strip questionable information from his speech.
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Security Council, 4701st meeting, 5 February 2003 (provisional verbatim record, S/PV.4701), United Nations, 5 Feb 2003.
Primary record
Wednesday, 5 February 2003, 10.15 a.m. New York
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Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (Senate Report 108-301, 9 July 2004), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 9 Jul 2004.
Primary record
Intelligence reports did indicate that Iraq may have had a mobile biological weapons program, but most of the reporting was from a single human intelligence (HUMINT) source to whom the Intelligence Community (IC) never had direct access.
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Whether Public Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated by Intelligence Information (Senate Report 110-345, with additional and minority views, 2008), U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, 2008.
Primary record
The Secretary of State said that “most U.S. experts” believed that the aluminum tubes were intended to be part of a nuclear weapons program
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