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Iraq-War critics are trumpeting a September 8 Senate Intelligence Committee report that concludes Saddam Hussein knew nothing about the September 11 attacks. For starters, the report’s sources include “multiple detainees -- including Saddam Hussein and former Deputy Prime Minister Tariq Aziz.” Both are on trial and could face severe punishment. Their exculpatory remarks should be highly suspect, but appear valid to Senate Intelligence staffers. The report also quotes captured Iraqi documents. Among some 120 million such papers, only 34 million have been “translated and summarized to some extent” to speed analysis. Nevertheless, with nearly 72% of these records still unusable,...

If you thought efforts were over to rewrite history on the lead-up to the war in Iraq and to smear the head of the Iraqi National Congress, Ahmad Chalabi, then think again. A remarkable pair of reports released last week by the Senate Select committee on Intelligence re-examine for the umpteenth time the pre-war intelligence on Iraqi WMD programs and Saddam’s alleged ties to al-Qaeda. The reports were produced at the demand of committee Democrats as part of a vast fishing expedition aimed at buttressing their old saw, Bush lied-People died. What’s remarkable about these reports are not the facts...

The Missing Link What the Senate report really says about Iraq and al Qaeda. The Weekly Standard ^ | July 26, 2004 | Stephen F. Hayes The Missing Link From the July 26, 2004 issue: What the Senate report really says about Iraq and al Qaeda. by Stephen F. Hayes 07/26/2004, Volume 009, Issue 43 IN THE FLOOD OF COMMENT that greeted the Senate Intelligence Committee's 511-page report on pre-Iraq war intelligence, no one remarked upon this sentence from the document about the Iraq-al Qaeda connection: "Any indication of a relationship between these two hostile elements could carry great dangers...