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at the end of the year.

Chevron, Elf, and Exxon are interested.

- She did it!

- No, I didn't!

Okay. Everybody okay?

Four arms, four legs. No broken bones.

Hey, kids.

Mr. Wilson, I'm so sorry I'm late.

- That's fine. Look, guys, Kim's here.

When's Mommy coming home?

PROFESSOR BADAWl: It's an honor

to meet you at last, Dr. Harper.

I was unable to attend

your string gravity seminar at MI

but I read a transcript.

Did you read my latest paper on quarks?

Dr. Harper, I cite your 1995 essay

more than once.

Dr. Harper's in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

She received a call yesterday

requesting she stay home for 48 hours.

I don't understand.

Who are you?

I'm sorry for misleading you

but I'm here to ask you the same question,

because you're not Professor Badawi.

Your name is Dr. Harif Al Fallari.

You were born in Basra.

You were lead engineer

at the Osirak nuclear facility

until you fled Iraq and arrived here,

in Cairo.

I need names of your colleagues

in the weapons programs.

The lives of hundreds of thousands

of your people may depend upon it.

This is absurd.

You were never tortured? Broken?

You didn't finally escape

and arrive here in Cairo with nothing?

No. My name is Bakkar Abdel Badawi.

I've never been to Basra. I'm a teacher.

Dr. Fallari had two daughters.

They were taken by Uday Hussein's

private guard.

They were never seen again.

I need names of your colleagues

in the weapons programs.

Why is the OVP here?

What?

Yeah?

The Vice President's men are here.

What?

My name is Scooter Libby.

I am the Chief of Staff to the Vice President.

You are?

Dave. I'm an analyst in Non-Proliferation.

What can you tell the Vice President

about aluminum tubes?

I didn't realize that was

what we were gonna be talking about here.

Relax, will you?

The Veep's just dotting the I's.

Come on, Jim.

The only time the Vice President

comes to Langley is to cut a ribbon.

Cheney doesn't trust us.

This sh*t with Dick goes back 30 years.

It will blow over.

Hey, Val, where are we on Iraq?

We need to find sources

that we can rely on.

We need to get in close.

Jim, Val thinks she can get us

inside the weapons program.

How?

In three weeks

you have to come back again, okay?

Thank you for everything.

Sorry, there's nothing I can do.

God bless.

Come on.

I said, come on!

Dr. Hassan,

is there somewhere we could talk?

How long is it since you saw your brother?

Before that, in '83, he came here

for an engineering conference.

Twice in 25 years.

We try to stay in contact. It's difficult.

Would you like to go back and see him?

You want me to become a spy?

We need to ask Hammad some questions.

- Do you think he'd answer...

- I am a doctor. I work hard.

I'm also a mother.

I have a small daughter and I'm all she has.

We could help your brother.

Right now he's extremely valuable to us.

And to Saddam.

The Mukhabarat watch him night and day.

He could come here.

He's an expert physicist. He'd have a job.

His children, his family would be safe.

You, your daughter could see him

whenever you want.

Can you help us?

I will not do anything to help you.

I don't know you.

If you care about Iraq, about your country...

My country is America now.

- Trust me, if there was another way...

- I don't trust you.

I don't trust you at all.

We're going to war. And your brother's

gonna be right in the middle of it.

If the Iraqi regime wishes peace

it will immediately

and unconditionally forswear,

disclose and remove or destroy

all weapons of mass destruction.

- Come in.

- They're back.

If Iraq's regime defies us again,

the world must move deliberately

and decisively to hold Iraq to account.

Don't make jokes.

He thinks I don't understand

how serious it is?

Weeks and weeks of 15-hour days.

We've been back over this and over this.

All right, that's it. I'm going to handle this.

We've been over this data with you

five, six times now.

And we don't know

how you want us to play this.

Let me level with you here, Paul.

I don't know what these tubes are for.

There could be something to this,

from everything you're saying

- but very likely not, right?

- Exactly.

Let me ask a question.

When you say,

"We don't really know how to play this,"

what do you mean?

I mean to say that I don't know

how to say it any other way...

You didn't say "I," you said "we. "

So, you and the others had discussed

how to play these briefings.

Why does the CIA

feel the need to play these briefings?

No, what I mean is,

I didn't mean what I just said.

Which part? The last part?

Or other things, too?

I'm sorry. I'm getting a little confused.

- Do you want me to come back?

- No. God, no.

- You don't know why I'm here, do you?

- No.

In 1991, the United States invaded Iraq,

and afterwards weapons inspectors

discovered Saddam was six months off

enriching uranium

to sufficiently high specifications

to make a nuclear bomb.

He had fissile material.

Not a single person in the CIA

had the slightest clue

that such a program even existed.

So, now, one decade on are you telling me

that you're 100% sure these tubes are not

intended to create nuclear weapons?

One point about intelligence,

nothing is 100%.

So, what, are you 99% sure? 98%?

I'm saying that you can't

put an exact figure on it.

- I'm saying that...

- But if you had to say?

You cannot be that precise.

Could you say you're 97% sure?

Is there a 3% chance you've got this wrong?

Or four or five?

Still pretty good odds.

Do you like those odds, Paul?

Are you willing to put your name to that?

Ready to make that call?

- I don't make that call, sir.

- Yes, you do, Paul.

Each time you interpret a piece of data.

Each time you choose

a maybe over a perhaps

you make a call, a decision.

Right now you're making a lot of little

decisions adding up to a big decision.

But what if there's only

a 1% chance that you're wrong?

Can you say for sure

that you'll take that chance

and state as a fact

that this equipment is not intended

for a nuclear weapons program?

Do you know what 1% of the population

of this country is?

It's 3,240,000 souls.

Okay, sir. Look, we're not machines.

We look at the evidence. We game it out.

And believe it or not, not everybody agrees

all the time.

- It's a process.

- It's a process.

- Yes.

- And not everyone agrees.

Exactly.

Who doesn't agree?

What the hell is Joe Turner

doing next to the DCI?

Didn't you hear? On Friday,

the DCI took him to the White House.

He briefed the President

on aluminum tubes.

You've got to be kidding me.

That guy's a tool.

Ready! Aim! Fire!

It's a dead end.

So, you got a list of Iraqi scientists.

How do you suggest we get to them?

The Mukhabarat watch the scientists

night and day.

Their houses are bugged,

their friends are followed.

Send in

a team of NOCs by taxi from the north.

Say you get through the checkpoints

and roadblocks.

If you showed up in my bedroom

in the dead of night

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