David Kay

David A. Kay (* 1940 ) is an American political scientist who headed the weapons inspectors of the United Nations in Iraq from 1991 to 1992 after the first Gulf War, from 2003 to 2004 with the beginning of the Iraq war he headed the Iraq Survey Group , which followed Weapons of mass destruction, the reason for war was looking for.

education

David Kay holds a Bachelor of Arts from the University of Texas at Austin , a Masters in International Relations and a PhD from Columbia University .

Career

He was commissioned by State Department officials to conduct studies on UNESCO and IAEA subjects . From 1991 to 1992 after the Gulf War he was UN Chief Weapons Inspector.

He led the teams of inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency in Iraq to find and destroy chemical , biological and nuclear weapons .

Colin Powell 's UN presentation slide with an alleged mobile biological weapons production facility. Lecture title: Presentation to the United Nations Security Council, Secretary Colin L. Powell, February 5, 2003, Slide title: Indication of where material is transported in mobile production facilities for biological weapons

From 1993 to March 2002, he was Vice President of Science Applications International Corporation (SAIC), where he worked with Steven Hatfill and provided expertise on an Iraqi weapons of mass destruction program . In 2001 SAIC was commissioned by the George W. Bush cabinet to build prototypes of mobile weapons laboratories.

With the beginning of the Iraq war from 2003 to 2004 he was appointed director of the Iraq Survey Group by George W. Bush , which tried to prove Saddam Hussein's program of mass destruction with the Central Intelligence Agency and the US military .

He has received awards from the International Atomic Energy Agency and the US State Department .

Individual evidence

↑ Kerstin Lueck, Gordon Chang, The Iraq War and the Discursive Construction of Knowledge: Claims of Political Threat, Risk, Cost, and Benefit., [1]
↑ Washington's $ 8 Billion Shadow, Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the “body shops” —SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $ 8 billion last year — sells brainpower, including a lot of the “expertise” behind the Iraq war., Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair (magazine) February 6, 2007, [2]
↑ United Nations digital library, [3]
↑ Interview with Iraq WMD Sleuth David Kay German Intelligence Was 'Dishonest, Unprofessional and Irresponsible' David Kay was charged by the Bush administration with finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the invasion. Instead of finding weapons, though, he found what he told SPIEGEL was 'the biggest intelligence fiasco of my lifetime.' Der Spiegel , March 22, 2008, [4]

personal data
SURNAME	Kay, David
ALTERNATIVE NAMES	Kay, David A .; WMD Sleuth (Weapons of Mass Destruction Detection Dog)
BRIEF DESCRIPTION	American head of the Iraq Survey Group and weapons inspector
DATE OF BIRTH	1940

[1] Kerstin Lueck, Gordon Chang, The Iraq War and the Discursive Construction of Knowledge: Claims of Political Threat, Risk, Cost, and Benefit., [1]

[2] Washington's $ 8 Billion Shadow, Mega-contractors such as Halliburton and Bechtel supply the government with brawn. But the biggest, most powerful of the “body shops” —SAIC, which employs 44,000 people and took in $ 8 billion last year — sells brainpower, including a lot of the “expertise” behind the Iraq war., Donald L. Barlett and James B. Steele, Vanity Fair (magazine) February 6, 2007, [2]

[3] United Nations digital library, [3]

[4] Interview with Iraq WMD Sleuth David Kay German Intelligence Was 'Dishonest, Unprofessional and Irresponsible' David Kay was charged by the Bush administration with finding weapons of mass destruction in Iraq after the invasion. Instead of finding weapons, though, he found what he told SPIEGEL was 'the biggest intelligence fiasco of my lifetime.' Der Spiegel , March 22, 2008, [4]