Senate Intelligence Panel Sets Deadline for CIA Iraq Documents

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The leaders of the Senate Intelligence Committee Wednesday demanded that the CIA produce documents and schedule interviews for the panel's assessment of prewar intelligence on Iraq by noon Friday.

"It is our desire that the committee's review will serve to validate the good work of the intelligence community and, where necessary, provide corrective suggestions where the intelligence product might have been better," said a joint letter from committee chairman Sen. Pat Roberts, a Kansas Republican, and senior Democrat Sen. John Rockefeller of West Virginia.

"We expect to receive all documents and schedule all interviews by 12 p.m. Oct. 31, 2003," the letter to CIA Director George Tenet said.

It was responding to a letter from Tenet dated Oct. 24 to the two senators, and obtained by Reuters, that said the CIA had provided the committee with "binders of material relating to the October 2002 NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) on Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, support for terrorism and possible acquisition of yellowcake from Niger."

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1. I guess they want the CIA's documents before they get the ones they want..

...from the Squatter-in-Chief. It'll make it much easier for the committee to understand when, where, and how often the Bushies have lied.

But, I remember earlier this week that Roberts tried to preemptively blame the CIA for faulty intelligence estimates on Iraq. That was nothing but an attempt to cover for his NeoCon and Squatter buddies.