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...Senate prepares to release a version of its report some time after July 4, a Pentagon official involved with pre-war intelligence suggests the simplest approach for the U.S. intelligence community would be to fess up. "We got fooled," said the official. "We should just admit it… Saddam wanted us to think he had these weapons ready. He wanted to have them. He had programs. He was doing his best to scrape them together. But he didn’t have them...
...months Democrats have been the pushing the committee chairman, Republican Pat Roberts of Kansas, to turn up the heat on the White House. They want to know whether the intelligence prepared by the CIA was overstated in pre-war public statements by Bush Administration hawks. The panel is set hear this week from a current intelligence official who is expected to allege that senior Bush officials ignored or sidelined analysts who didn't back their hard-line views...
...With Roberts on the defensive, Republicans early last week launched a PR blitz about an "options" memo written by a Democratic aide which argued for delaying an "independent investigation" of the pre-war intelligence until Dems have pushed Roberts and his powers as chairman to the limit - which, conveniently, would likely be during next year's presidential election season. "We can pull the trigger on an independent investigation of the Administration's use of intelligence at any time," the memo read, "but we can only do so once." Roberts and other Republicans jumped on the memo, with some calling...
...scandals. But while the banner business means little by itself, the shifting and shading could become a symbol of Bush's suddenly growing credibility problem, coming as it does in the wake of the controversy over claims in the president's State of the Union address and other pre-war speeches about Iraq's yet-to-materialize weapons of mass destruction and leaks from White House officials about the identity of a CIA operative. Errant spin also undermines White House efforts to insist its account of post-war progress in Iraq is the most accurate one. "At a time when...
Reality has repudiated nearly all of Bush’s pre-war assumptions about Iraq. Bush’s own David Kay, head of the Iraq Survey Group that scoured Iraq for WMD, told Congress on Oct. 2 that his group has found no direct evidence of weapons or weapons programs. Bush finally admitted last month that “we’ve had no evidence that Saddam Hussein was involved with September the 11th,” even though White House rhetoric was responsible for convincing 70 percent of Americans otherwise...