Reid to propose legislation to hold Bush admin accountable on Iran Intell

[kpete]

Reid calls for more intelligence oversight 1 hour, 43 minutes ago

WASHINGTON - Americans won't be fooled by future intelligence failures if Congress will enact stiffer reporting requirements for the president and the intelligence community, Senate Democratic Leader Harry Reid said Saturday.

Reid, in prepared remarks for the YearlyKos Convention of bloggers in Las Vegas, said his proposed legislation is critical as the Bush administration steps up its diplomacy with Iran.

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Reid said Democrats will take new steps to hold senior Bush administration officials accountable for their statements on Iran, similar to their fight to hold them accountable for their statements about the Iraq war.

"All of us as Americans need to review how the Bush Administration cherry-picked and hyped the case for war with Iraq to sell it to Congress and the American people, so we can make sure it never happens again," Reid said.

Reid's proposed bill, called the Iran Intelligence Oversight Act, would require an updated national intelligence estimate on Iran, with an unclassified summary made public.
It also would require President Bush to report to Congress on his objectives and strategies for Iran.

more at:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20060610/ap_on_go_co/iran_reid

[rooney]

1. This will probably go the same way all of the other

half-hearted attempts to control this administration have gone.