I'm still reading these reports, but for the moment I'm interested in a paragraph from the June 11 Conversation (it is mislabeled June 1 in the NSA list).
http://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB...



Though the report doesn't acknowledge this, the British report was the September 24, 2002 White Paper on Saddam's WMD--one that was very similar to our own NIE (this was the "sexed up" dossier, and it made the Niger uranium claim more strongly than our own NIE did). And the report also doesn't acknowledge that Saddam concluded war was inevitable when the US released its own report on what Saddam had "left out" of his WMD declaration on December 19, 2002--precisely "four months before the war." In other words, what Saddam must have been saying is that it was clear the US was using faulty intelligence in September-October 2002, and it became clear with that December 2002 report that they continued to make false claims about his WMD.

Also note, the very last Conversation included here--from June 28, 2004--shows that the FBI was still trying to shore up a claim that Saddam had ties to Al Qaeda at that late date. Apparently, Saddam pointed out,



Funny--the dictator noticed what we all noticed too.

more:
http://emptywheel.firedoglake.com/2009/07/... /
http://thinkprogress.org/2009/07/02/saddam...