Panel Preparing Harsh Report of Iraq Intelligence

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence is preparing to release a report on the issue of prewar U.S. intelligence on Iraq that is highly critical of the CIA and its director, George Tenet, Time.com reported Saturday (see GSN, May 28).

The committee last month sent a copy of its report to Tenet for declassification review. According to sources, the committee’s top two members, Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.) and Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-W.Va.) conducted a secret interview of Tenet earlier this month at CIA headquarters. During the meeting Tenet reportedly would not acknowledge that he had told President George W. Bush that the prewar intelligence on Iraq’s alleged WMD efforts had been a “slam dunk,” as has been reported (Burger/Waller, Time.com, May 22). 

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