American Morning (CNN) snippet - 2002-10-04
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[0:00] This is a satellite telephone leak. And
[0:02] however willing you were to read them
[0:05] the riot act. Uh in that case, they
[0:07] continued to move things out of the
[0:09] facility. We photographed it and
[0:11] reported it to the Security Council for
[0:13] their action.
[0:14] >> And was any action taken?
[0:16] >> Action was taken in that case. I was
[0:18] very lucky. In 1991, we had a United
[0:21] Security Council behind the inspectors.
[0:23] And I cannot tell you what a great
[0:25] difference that made. That made our
[0:27] life, while frustrating in dealing with
[0:29] the Iraqis, ultimately satisfactory.
[0:31] Unfortunately, by 1995, the Council had
[0:34] fragmented and 95 through 98 was
[0:37] probably the most frustrating period any
[0:39] arms control inspectors have ever had.
[0:41] >> I wanted to close with an incident we
[0:42] don't have on tape, but you were
[0:44] actually held by the Iraqis over some
[0:47] documents you seized. What was that all
[0:49] about?
[0:50] >> We seized 60,000 pages of Iraqi
[0:52] documentation of their nuclear weapons
[0:54] program, including an actual diagram of
[0:57] their first nuclear weapon. So, these
[1:00] were in Iraqi documents in Iraqi words.
[1:03] You don't have to be a scientist to
[1:04] understand. Much of the rest of our data
[1:06] made sense if you had a science
[1:07] background, but not necessarily a
[1:09] policymaker or a diplomat. These were
[1:12] the damning documents of a 20-year
[1:14] program to violate their obligations
[1:17] under the nuclear nonproliferation
[1:18] treaty and to achieve nuclear weapons in
[1:21] large numbers in Iraq. They refused to
[1:24] let us leave with the documents. I said,
[1:25] "We're not leaving this site until we
[1:28] have the documents