Exhibit 388

Report to the President of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

Exhibit 388 · Presidential commission report

Report to the President of the Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding Weapons of Mass Destruction

We conclude that the Intelligence Community was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction.

Bipartisan commission established by Executive Order 13328. Finds the intelligence community 'dead wrong' in almost all prewar judgments, no indication of distortion, and no analytic judgment changed in response to political pressure (Conclusion 26).

Source: Commission on the Intelligence Capabilities of the United States Regarding WMD (Silberman-Robb)
Date: 31 March 2005
Quoted from: transmittal letter, 31 March 2005, p. 1
Grade: Primary record
Document: https://www.govinfo.gov/content/pkg/GPO-WMD/pdf/GPO-WMD.pdf
Accessed: 2026-11-09
Cited by: Findings citing this exhibit
Note: Conclusion 26 is at scanned PDF p. 200.

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Finding DEF-2.5: Primary record The bipartisan commission established by Executive Order 13328 to review the intelligence on Iraq concluded in March 2005 that the intelligence community "was dead wrong in almost all of its pre-war judgments about Iraq's weapons of mass destruction." It found that the community did not make or change any analytic judgment in response to political pressure.