
Entry 083Sep 8, 2002
“We don't want the smoking gun to be a mushroom cloud.”83
83National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, interview on CNN's Late Edition, September 8, 2002. Source
Why it’s on the record. The administration's rhetoric suggested an imminent threat that the intelligence community did not support.
On tape
Where this comes from
- TranscriptRead it on web.archive.org
- Why it’s on the recordSource: govinfo.gov
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On the record
Rice was discussing the potential threat posed by Iraq's weapons programs.
- Said by
- National Security Adviser Condoleezza Rice, National Security Adviser
- Where
- CNN's Late Edition
- When
- Sep 8, 2002
- Source
- CNN transcript