Senate Pre-War Intel Reports (PDFs Here)

[kpete]

Senate Releases Pre-War Intel Reports
By Justin Rood - September 8, 2006, 12:32 PM
AP reports:

There's no evidence Saddam Hussein had a relationship with Abu Musab al-Zarqawi and his Al-Qaida associates, according to a Senate report on prewar intelligence on Iraq. Democrats said the report undercuts President Bush's justification for going to war.

The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.

It discloses for the first time an October 2005 CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government ''did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates.''

Bush and other administration officials have said that the presence of Zarqawi in Iraq before the war was evidence of a connection between Saddam's government and al-Qaida. Zarqawi was killed by a U.S. airstrike in June this year.

The two sections of the report released by the Senate intelligence committee can be found here:

Report: "Postwar Findings about Iraq's WMD Programs and Links to Terrorism and How they Compare with Prewar Assessments"

http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiinc.pdf
Report: "The Use by the Intelligence Community of Information Provided by the Iraqi National Congress"
http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiinc.pdf

http://www.tpmmuckraker.com/archives/001490.php

[bobthedrummer]

1. k&r kpete-and a personal thank you! n/t

[RoseMead]

2. Kick

:kick: In the immortal words of Montomery Burns: Excellent!

[never cry wolf]

3. Link to transcript (pdf) of Carl Levins floor statement re: report

http://levin.senate.gov/newsroom/release.cfm?id=262690