Saddam Hussein planned on insurgency

Former Army Vice Chief of Staff Jack Keane says that Saddam Hussein planned an insurgency long before the invasion of Iraq. (0:29)
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Representative Robert Wexler (D-FL) asks Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice if she had intelligence information contrary to what was actually reported about Iraq

At the House Foreign Affairs Committee International Relations Budget Full committee hearing on the "International Relations Budget for FY2009," In response to Representative Robert Wexler, Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice says that at no time did she intend to, nor believe that she did, put forth false information. Wexler asks her if she had intelligence information that was contrary to the intelligence information that was reported about Iraq having weapons of mass destruction. He says that there were contrary reports, and Rice says that she chose to use the collective wisdom of the intelligence community, and that it showed in the Key Judgments in 2002 that Saddam Hussein had reconstituted his biological weapons program, reconstituted his chemical weapons program, and might do so with his nuclear weapons program if he got foreign assistance. She says she will be the first to say that it was not right. (1:27)

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General Hayden says that information gathering by the CIA is appropriate

During the Annual Threat Assessment of the Director of National Intelligence for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Director of the Central Intelligence Agency General Hayden says that information gathering techniques used by the CIA are lawful, appropriate, and adequate to the needs of the CIA program. He then says that their manual is different than the Army Field Manual. He then uses as an example the information gathered from Saddam Hussein using the CIA's techniques. Vice Chairman Senator Kit Bond (R-MO) interrupts by saying that the information was obtained right before he [Hussein] was about to be hanged. "Talk about an enhanced interrogation technique," Bond says. (:55)
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