They did tell the admin that there was no WMDs. But Rumsfeld didn't want to hear it, and forced them to "find" it.
Almost killed the agency
Well in that case, the CIA is not merely stupid and incompetent, it's deliberately evil. How many innocent civilians were slaughtered in Iraq during the American occupation?
I mean yeah, that's the Americas in general since Europeans first put eyes on it. ~500 years of brutality and slaughter in pursuit of profit. We're gonna do it again in Venezuela and probably Denmark/Greenland. C'est la vie
Evil and apparently experimenting with magic. Sounds like a recipe for a good time.