CIA Report Coming on Iraq's Possible Weapons Capacity in 2008

The [Los Angeles Times] previews a CIA report due to be released next month that will speculate on what Saddam Hussein's weapons capabilities might have looked like in 2008 had the United States not invaded Iraq last year. Some officials, including Congressional Democrats, have charged that the report is merely a politically motivated attempt to confuse the fact that no WMDs have been found. Former weapons inspector David Kay, who resigned in January, told the Times he wasn't sure how such an evaluation is even possible. "No one ever suggested to me in any of the discussions before I took the job, afterward, or even when I left, that [assessing Iraq's future capabilities] was a thing that should have been done."