US Senate to issue report on prewar intelligence on Iraq today

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WASHINGTON - A Senate analysis of intelligence-gathering activities leading up to the invasion of Iraq will be released on Friday and is certain to rekindle a debate, just months ahead of congressional elections, on the justification of going to war.

The top Democrat on the Senate Intelligence Committee, Jay Rockefeller, said the report will confirm that the Bush administration’s case for war in Iraq was fundamentally misleading.’ snip

But Rockefeller said the report would show how the administration pursued a deceptive strategy, abusing intelligence reporting that the intelligence community had already warned was uncorroborated, unreliable and in some critical circumstances fabricated.’

Rockefeller said a third segment, on the prewar intelligence assessment of postwar Iraq, could be issued later this month. But there was no set date for issuing the last two parts of Phase II, including a look at the politically divisive issue of whether policymakers manipulated intelligence reports to set the stage for war.