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White House, CIA Refuse Give Intelligence Summary to Senate Panel Investigators
The White House and the CIA have refused to provide the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence with a short intelligence summary on prewar Iraq that was prepared for President George W. Bush and contains few of the caveats included in longer intelligence reports, the New York Times reported today (see GSN, July 13). The one-page document prepared in October 2002 describes the findings of a 90-page National Intelligence Estimate prepared on prewar Iraq’s alleged WMD efforts. Such a summary is typically included with intelligence estimates; the staff of the National Intelligence Council prepared the document, according to intelligence officials. Democrats on the Senate intelligence panel said the summary could provide more information on what U.S. intelligence told Bush before the war about Iraq’s alleged WMD efforts, according to the Times. Congressional officials said that notes taken by Senate staff members who were allowed to review the summary indicated that many references were eliminated to debates between intelligence agencies over the conclusions in the larger estimate. “In determining what the president was told about the contents of the NIE dealing with Iraq’s weapons of mass destruction, qualifiers and all, there is nothing clearer than this single page,” Senator Richard Durbin (D-Ill.) said in an “additional view” that was published along with the Senate report. Administration and CIA officials have said, though, that the summary is protected by executive privilege. Republican committee members have also denied that the summary contains any significant information (Douglas Jehl, New York Times, July 14).
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