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TheTorontoStar | 2 Jun 2003 | TIM HARPER
Jun. 2, 2003. 01:00 AM
U.S. under pressure over intelligence about Iraq

TIM HARPER
WASHINGTON BUREAU

WASHINGTON—Pressure mounted in the U.S. capital yesterday for an independent probe of the quality of the intelligence provided to the Bush administration before the invasion of Iraq.

With no weapons of mass destruction found in Iraq, tougher questions are being raised daily as to whether the reports used by U.S. President George W. Bush were wrong, politically slanted or provided under such intense pressure that findings were tailored to meet the goals of the intelligence community's political masters.

There are strong concerns in Washington that U.S. international credibility is taking another nosedive.

Bush stunned many when he claimed on the eve of the G-8 Summit that his government had found weapons of mass destruction. He was referring to two suspected mobile labs, which U.S. intelligence agencies say may have been biological weapons labs.

The statement either indicates that the burden of proof required by his government to justify its main war rationale has been significantly lowered or Bush was getting frustrated over the persistent questions.

"They're illegal. They're against the United Nations resolutions and we've so far discovered two," Bush said. U.S. Deputy Defence Secretary Paul Wolfowitz also re-ignited controversy when he said in an interview with Vanity Fair magazine that the weapons of mass destruction argument for the war was emphasized for "bureaucratic reasons." On ABC's This Week, which aired yesterday, Connecticut Democrat Senator Christopher Dodd and Arizona Republican Senator John McCain both called for independent reviews into the intelligence provided. "Enough questions have been raised. We ought to look at it," Dodd said.

McCain said he thought Congress should study the intelligence question to provide an "objective analysis."