# October 2002 National Intelligence Estimate: On the Web Yet?

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537>\
**Category:** Factual Questions\
**Created:** [July 19, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537 "2003-07-19T03:46:02Z")\
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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 3:46am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537/1 "2003-07-19T03:46:02Z")

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Where can I find this important, recently released, document?

I’ve searched google, [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov), [firstgov.gov](http://firstgov.gov), and [govspot.com](http://govspot.com).

Is it even up yet?

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**Author:** ![Mike.V](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/82dd89/32.png) [@Mike.V](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mike.V)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 5:11am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537/2 "2003-07-19T05:11:35Z")

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Is this what you’re looking for?

[Iraq’s Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs](http://www.cia.gov/cia/reports/iraq_wmd/Iraq_Oct_2002.htm)

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [July 19, 2003, 3:11pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537/3 "2003-07-19T15:11:48Z")

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Thanks, but no, this is an unclassified CIA report that was previously available.

What I’m talking about is a classified multi-agency consensus report that had excerpts released just yesterday.

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**Author:** ![Squink](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/b5e925/32.png) [@Squink](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Squink)\
**Post date:** [July 20, 2003, 12:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537/4 "2003-07-20T00:09:18Z")

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Looked for it this AM. Didn’t find it. Maybe by tomorrow ? The [whitehouse.gov](http://whitehouse.gov) site has a complete transcript of the press conference where it was presented, an interesting read by itself, but no NIE yet.

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 9:51am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537/5 "2003-07-25T09:51:36Z")

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Here’s a WaPo link to a .pdf

[http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/nationalsecurity/documents/nie\_iraq\_wmd](http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-srv/nation/nationalsecurity/documents/nie_iraq_wmd)  
.pdf

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**Author:** ![PatriotX](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/p/c4cdca/32.png) [@PatriotX](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/PatriotX)\
**Post date:** [July 25, 2003, 1:25pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/october-2002-national-intelligence-estimate-on-the-web-yet/189537/6 "2003-07-25T13:25:09Z")

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Bonus Question:

Who’re the six intel agencies whose consensus this represents?