Reaction to Cheney's claims about WMD's 'Cheney’s speech had not been vetted by the CIA, and John McLaughlin, the CIA’s deputy director, shortly afterward told Congress that the likelihood of Iraq initiating a WMD attack “would be low.” Another CIA official later recalled that the agency’s reaction to Cheney’s speech was, “Where is he getting this stuff from?”'

The whole point was that even the CIA briefers had no idea Cheney was going to make that claim. The intel didn't justify it.