Sens. want more Iraq report declassified

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http://www.michaelmoore.com/words/latestnews/index.php?id=7908

By Sam Hananel / Associated Press

WASHINGTON - Senators on an intelligence panel are seeking to declassify more information from two Senate reports on prewar intelligence on Iraq, saying too much was kept secret.

The bipartisan group on Tuesday asked a government commission to consider whether portions of the reports could be made public without harming national security.

It's the first time lawmakers have appealed to the Public Interest Declassification Board since it was established in 2004 as a place for members of Congress to appeal if they think federal agencies are unnecessarily classifying material in the name of national security.

The two reports, released earlier this month, concluded there was no evidence Saddam Hussein had ties with al-Qaida before the U.S. invasion of Iraq. They also found that Saddam's regime did not have weapons of mass destruction and was not actively seeking to acquire them.

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[Monkeyman]

1. The Replugs want to spin the report it hurt them big time

[Jack Rabbit]

2. These are times that try men's souls

Damn the classification. Somebody should do Senator Gravel and stay up all night reading the whole bloody thing into the Congressional Record