White House Curveball
"Nonetheless the CIA would hear none of the doubts. President Bush referred to Curveball's tale in his January 2003 State of the Union address, and the alleged mobile labs were a central claim in the now notorious presentation to the United Nations by Colin Powell, then Secretary of State, in February 2003, making the case for war...The senior BND officer who supervised Curveball's case said he was aghast when he watched Mr Powell overstate Curveball's case. 'We were shocked,' he said. 'We had always told them it was not proven...It was not hard intelligence.' "