We had no asset in Saddam’s inner circle, says ex-CIA deputy director

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A senior Central Intelligence Agency official, who led the agency as its acting director before retiring in 2013, has said that not having sources in the Iraqi government’s upper echelons led to the intelligence failure of 2003.

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