Intelligence: No U.S. Sources Inside Saddam's Inner Circle.

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Byline: Mark Hosenball

One problem the CIA had in gathering prewar intelligence about Iraq was a lack of inside sources. In a little-noticed passage in his Feb. 5 Georgetown University speech, CIA Director George Tenet said: "We did not have enough of our own human intelligence. We did not ourselves penetrate the inner sanctum." This means the CIA had none of its own agents--informants controlled and paid directly by Washington--in Saddam's inner...

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