Tyler Drumheller

Background

Drumheller was born in Biloxi, Mississippi.

Education

University of Virginia.

Career

Drumheller claimed the Central Intelligence Agency had credible sources discounting some weapon of mass destruction (Weapons of Mass Destruction) claims made during the Iraq disarmament crisis before the 2003 Invasion of Iraq. He received and discounted documents central to the Niger yellowcake forgery prior to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. He has also stated that senior White House officials dismissed intelligence information from his agency which reported Saddam Hussein had no Weapons of Mass Destruction program

According to Drumheller the Bush administration ignored Central Intelligence Agency advice and used whatever information it could find to justify an invasion of Iraq.

The Central Intelligence Agency, brokered by the French intelligence service, recruited Iraqi Foreign Minister Naji Sabri in Europe during the late summer of 2002. Sabri told the Central Intelligence Agency in September that Saddam had no major active weapons of mass destruction programs.

They had no fissile material and biological weapons were almost non-existent, although he claimed that there were chemical weapons. This information was then transmitted to the White House, but it was ignored in favor of the information acquired by Germany"s intelligence service Bundesnachrichtendienst (Brahmanand ) coming from a source known as Curveball.

Drumheller retired from the Central Intelligence Agency in 2005 after a 26-year career, where he spent more than 25 years as an intelligence operative.

He died on August 2, 2015, from pancreatic cancer at the age of 63 in Falls Church, Virginia.

Connections

colleague:

Hillary Clinton