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Senate Report on Iraqi Intelligence Will Not Address White House Use of Information
A report on U.S. prewar intelligence on Iraq set to be released tomorrow by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will not address whether the Bush administration misused intelligence to build the case for war, congressional officials said yesterday (see GSN, July 6). Democratic and Republican committee members agreed earlier this year that the administration’s use of prewar intelligence would be addressed in a second inquiry, not expected to be completed until after the November presidential election, according to the New York Times. While both sides of the committee have expressed a desire to quickly complete the second inquiry, the panel also plans to work on recommendations for reform in the U.S. intelligence community, the Times reported. The committee report is expected to focus primarily on the errors made by U.S. intelligence agencies in gathering and evaluating intelligence on prewar Iraq. Democratic committee members plan to increase attention on the issue of the administration’s use of such intelligence by releasing a number of “additional views” to supplement the report, according to the Times. “How the administration used the intelligence was very troubling,” Senator Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) said. “They took a flawed set of intelligence reports and converted it into a rationale for going to war,” he added (Douglas Jehl, New York Times, July 8). Senator Saxby Chambliss (R-Ga.) said yesterday, though, that the report would clear the administration of any claims of misusing prewar intelligence. “I would say it’s a total vindication of any allegations that might ever have been made about what the administration did with the information,” said Chambliss, a committee member (Jonathan Landay, Knight Ridder/Miami Herald, July 8).
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