Release of 2 sections of the 9/11 Phase II report

INTELLIGENCE -- SENATE COMMITTEE RELEASES PORTIONS OF PHASE II IRAQ INTEL REPORT: The Senate Intelligence Committee voted yesterday to release a 400-page report that "covers only two of the five topics outlined under Phase II" of the committee's report on the manipulation of intelligence preceding the Iraq war. "Much of the information -- on the intelligence supplied by the INC and Chalabi and the overestimation of Saddam's WMD threat -- has been documented in numerous studies." The documents will be available on the committee's website later today. The "heart of the report" -- an "analysis comparing the Bush administration's public statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein with the evidence senior officials reviewed in private" -- "remains mired in partisan recrimination and will not be released before the November elections." Committee Chairman Pat Roberts (R-KS) promised to continue working on the report, although he has in the past called Phase II a "monumental waste of time." Sen. Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) said the released portions would show the "administration pursued a deceptive strategy of using intelligence reporting that the intelligence community had already warned was uncorroborated, unreliable, and in some critical circumstances, fabricated."

Here are the two parts released today:

Postwar findings about Iraq's WMD programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with prewar assessments.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiaccuracy.pdf

The use by the intelligence community of information provided by the Iraqi national congress.
http://intelligence.senate.gov/phaseiiinc.pdf



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