Intelligence panel sets more document deadlines

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CNN


WASHINGTON (CNN) -- The Senate Intelligence Committee has sent bluntly worded letters to the White House, State Department and Pentagon to demand documents relevant to its investigation into intelligence on alleged Iraqi weapons before the war.

The letters sent Thursday follow a similar one sent Wednesday to the CIA. Each letter gives the same deadline of noon Friday for the documents to be turned over.

The letters to national security adviser Condoleezza Rice, Secretary of State Colin Powell and Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld also insist that witnesses should call the committee to schedule appearances by that same deadline.

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The senators' letter also complained about the failure of the agency to provide the committee "with an explanation of the various disconnects and inconsistencies in the assessments concerning the Niger uranium issue."

In the letter to Rice the senators wrote, "We have made numerous requests for documents which we have not yet been provided and we have sought to interview a member of your staff without success. Some of these requests have gone unanswered since July. You must expedite our access to the outstanding documents and immediately make available the individual identified. You must also lift your objection to the Central Intelligence Agency providing the committee with certain documents and allowing us to interview individuals involved in briefing senior administration officials."


Yahoo! Go get em Roberts and Rockerfeller. Glad to see at least there is someone in our government who is trying to get some answers. Please don't let this misadministration continue to get away with this crap.