HOW HARD IS IT TO SINK THE MAINE?

Some Iraqi Scientists Are Cooperating, CIA Weapons Adviser Says: 'Solid Evidence' of WMD Programs Being
Gathered, Kay Tells Senate Committee (Walter Pincus, July 31, 2003, The Washington Post)

Some Iraq scientists are cooperating in the hunt for Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction, including leading searchers to sensitive sites, according to David Kay, the CIA's adviser on the search for weapons.

After appearing this morning for three hours before the Senate Armed Services Committee, Kay told reporters, "We are gaining the cooperation, the active cooperation of Iraqis who were involved in that program. We are, as we speak, involved in sensitive exploitation of sites that we are being led to by Iraqis."

While Kay said "solid evidence" is being produced, it would not be made public "until we have full confidence it is solid proof of what we're to talk about."

Kay took issue with a story in today's Washington Post that quoted administration sources as saying the Iraqi Survey Team, which Kay is helping direct, is studying documents but not visiting sites.

Kay said sites being visited are new and "almost every one of them is one that we did not know about until we were led to it by Iraqis or the documentation we have seized."

Just plant some stuff and come home. Posted by Orrin Judd at July 31, 2003 9:56 PM