Senate intelligence chief urges end to Iraq probe

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Senate intelligence chief urges end to Iraq probe

By David Morgan
2 hours, 14 minutes ago


WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The chairman of the Senate intelligence committee on Tuesday urged lawmakers to begin wrapping up the second phase of its investigation into U.S. intelligence on prewar Iraq, despite fresh demands from Democrats for further scrutiny.

Sen. Pat Roberts (news, bio, voting record), the Kansas Republican, laid out a schedule for completing four of the investigation's five segments by the end of April and pledged to release much of the findings to the public.

The largest segment of the Phase 2 investigation, which has increasingly become a lightning rod for partisan squabbling, promises to examine whether Bush administration officials exaggerated intelligence on Iraq as they made their public case for war in 2002 and 2003.

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"The Democrats are saying (the probe) is not developing the answers they want -- the answers they want amount to 'Bush lied' -- so they just want to keep looking," said one aide, who requested anonymity because he was not authorized to speak publicly about committee affairs.

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http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20060315/pl_nm/iraq_usa_senate_dc_1

[Hubert Flottz]

1. Pat Roberts Don't want the truth to ever come out!

The man is truly an Anti-American Toady!

[Cocoa]

2. Rockefeller wants it to be a real investigation

of course, Roberts can't allow that.

ut a Democratic aide familiar with Phase 2 said the letter asked the committee to interview about 20 senior administration officials, including former Secretary of State Colin Powell, and sought access to President George W. Bush's daily intelligence briefings on Iraq.

"Nowhere is there any suggestion we need to go into areas of investigation that we haven't already started," he said.

The Rockefeller letter also called on the committee to press ahead with its probe of former U.S. defense policy chief Douglas Feith, whom Democrats accuse of manipulating intelligence to suggest links between Saddam Hussein and al Qaeda leader Osama bin Laden, the Democratic aide said.

Roberts has put the committee's Feith investigation on hold until the Defense Department inspector general completes its own probe of the former defense official.

"Our goal should be to unite around a thorough, accurate and credible report that answers lingering questions about whether and how intelligence may have been misused," Rockefeller said in a statement.

[Hubert Flottz]

3. I hope someday that Pat Roberts ROTS in prison for his part in

the cover up of Bush's War Crimes.

[neoblues]

4. Yeah, it's just like the Democrats...

"the answers they want amount to 'Bush lied' -- so they just want to keep looking,"...

Yeah, that sounds just like the Democrats... always wanting the Truth... how annoying, how inconvenient or how quaint (republican/conservative opinion)? I'd say: "How un-American" (not to want the truth, that is).

[walldude]

5. I'm shocked... shocked I tell ya

:eyes:

[ProSense]

6. Any doubt who's holding up every investigation? n/t