[Pikamax]

The unanimous report by the panel will say there is no evidence that intelligence officials were subjected to pressure to reach particular conclusions about Iraq. That issue had been an early focus of Democrats, but none of the more than 200 intelligence officials interviewed by the panel made such a claim, and the Democrats have recently focused criticism on the question of whether the intelligence was misused.

[doug from upland]

Wait until the July 14 report from the British government. Yes, folks, Iraq was one of 5 nations actively seeking yellow cake from Niger.

[Hans]

20 years ago I happily paid $1 for a copy of the NYT,
then I subscribed for the next fifteen years. Now I
get physically ill when I see a copy at the news stand.

[My2Cents]

On a related issue, when the heck is the Administration going to come out with the pre-war evidence provided by Israel intelligence of Saddam's links to al-Qaeda, the sending of terror squads into Europe, Turkey, the West Bank, and Russia prior to the Coalition invasion of Iraq, and the connection between the foiled ricin attack in London in the fall of 2002 with these Iraqi-trained terror squads?

[Tacis]

Will the report cover the payments received by Clinton from Saddam to ensure that Osama was not killed or captured during the late 90s? The dems want the Saddam-Osama connection avaoided at all costs because they know where any investigation of the connection must lead. Willie and his sewer dwellers (including Gorelick) would have to testify that they had no knowledge of Osama's plan to attack NYC and ceratinly didn't take the cash to prevent that! What a great documentary this will make!!

[Shermy]

A bipartisan Senate report to be issued Friday that is highly critical of prewar intelligence on Iraq will sidestep the question of how the Bush administration used that information to make the case for war, Congressional officials said Wednesday.

What question is there to sidestep? The Administration used it, is there no doubt?

This is spin, trying to place the Administration in the dock by semantic confustion.

[mewzilla]

The Senate Intell Committee can't finger anybody for anything without then having to explain why they all screwed up in their oversight responsibilities.