Friday, October 28, 2005

Has The Senate Intelligence Committee Decided To Investigate BushCo Intel Manipulation After All?

The Murray Waas article from which I quoted yesterday -- the one alleging that Cheney and Libby failed to fully cooperate last year with the Senate Intelligence Committee -- contained these interesting paragraphs:

In recent weeks Fitzgerald's investigation has zeroed in on the activities of Libby, who is Cheney's top national security and foreign policy advisor, as well as the conflict between the vice president's office on one side and the CIA and State Department on the other over the use of intelligence on Iraq. The New York Times reported this week, for example, that Libby first learned about Plame and her covert CIA status from Cheney in a conversation with the vice president weeks before Plame's cover was blown in a July 2003 newspaper column by Robert Novak.

The Intelligence Committee at the time was trying to determine whether the CIA and other intelligence agencies provided faulty or erroneous intelligence on Iraq to President Bush and other government officials. But the committee deferred the much more politically sensitive issue as to whether the president and the vice president themselves, or other administration officials, misrepresented intelligence information to bolster the case to go to war. An Intelligence Committee spokesperson says the panel is still working on this second phase of the investigation.
Still working on it? I was under the impression that the Senator Pat Roberts' committee completed its work and concluded that the Bush Regime did not engage in any intelligence manipulation in the run-up to the Iraq Catastrophe. Did I miss something, or has Senator Roberts finally read the writing on the wall and decided to do his job for a change?

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