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| Confusing 'Times' with Pre-Iraq War Probe |
| Wednesday, March 15, 2006 |
The Senate Intelligence Committee is close to completing its long investigation of the Bush administration�s prewar claims about the dangers posed by Iraq.
At least that�s what the Los Angeles Times is reporting.
Readers of The New York Times, on the other hand, are told that the committee is locked in a "partisan standoff.�
Three out of five sections of the committee�s report are nearly completed, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., the committee�s chairman, said Tuesday. They include a comparison of prewar and postwar assessments of Iraq�s weapons program and a probe of prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq, the Los Angeles paper reports.
The first phase of the Iraq investigation was released in July 2004, but little progress has been reported since then.
The Democrats have accused Roberts of whitewashing the investigation, but he said the Democrats� charges were groundless and explained that progress now depended on how quickly committee members complete their reviews of the three drafts, due in early April.
"I welcome the chairman�s sense of urgency in finally completing Phase II,� said Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, the committee�s top Democrat.
In The New York Times� report, however, Rockefeller is quoted as charging that the committee was "under the control of the White House through the chairman.�
Roberts, for his part, wrote in the congressional newspaper The Hill: "I don�t think it�s a stretch to say that many in the minority would prefer to serve on the 'committee against everything the Bush administration does.'� |
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