David Kay Quotes


I've seen looting around the world and thought I knew the best looters in the world. The Iraqis excel at that.


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Kay, David. Testimony. Iraqi Weapons of Mass Destruction and Related Programs, United States Senate Committee on Armed Services, U.S. Government Printing Office, 28 Jan. 2004.

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Nixon's suspected that Brookings had evidence about the secret Cambodian bombings and his pre-election felony regarding Vietnam. White House Staff Member Tom Huston had put together a plan to obtain embarrassing and potentially ruinous documents and other documents that would allow them to blackmail Nixon's critics who were regarded as "enemies".


Until very recently common law derived from this law allowed a thief on someone else’s property to be killed even with no danger to the property owner. In Texas and other jurisdictions the “unwritten” law would not convict such a killer for murder even if he came upon a trespasser who was stealing nothing. Today, the legal principle is that deadly force may only be used if the person reasonably believed his life was in danger and had no other means of escape.


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David Kay
David Kay
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David A. Kay (born c. 1940) is a weapons expert, political commentator, and senior fellow at the Potomac Institute for Policy Studies. He is best known for his time as United Nations Chief Weapons Inspector following the first Gulf War and for leading of the Iraq Survey Group's search for weapons of mass destruction following the 2003 invasion of Iraq. Upon presentation of the Group's finding that there had been significant errors in pre-war intelligence concerning Iraq's weapons programs, Kay resigned. The ensuing controversy served as impetus for the formation of the Iraq Intelligence Commission.