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host · 10-07-2006, 08:22 AM

We've kicked this "Senate Select Intel Committee, Releases "one part" of it's "Phase II report, which was divided into two parts in 2004, and then the second part was divided into five parts by committee chairman, Pat Roberts, (R-KS), in 2006, so that most of it's release could be delayed until after yet another elections cycle" .... "news reporting"........around, here:
http://www.tfproject.org/tfp/showthread.php?t=108336

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http://www.forbes.com/technology/fee...ap3003247.html
Senate Panel Releases Iraq Intel Report
By JIM ABRAMS , 09.08.2006, 12:03 PM

.......The intelligence committee issued a portion of its analysis, labeled Phase I , on prewar intelligence shortcomings in July 2004. But concluding work on Phase II of the study has been more problematic, because of partisan divisions over how senior policymakers used intelligence in arguing for the need to drive Saddam from power.

Last November, Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid of Nevada forced the Senate into a rare closed-door session to discuss the delay in coming out with the new data.

The 400-page report to be released Friday covers only two of the five topics outlined under Phase II . 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.

But Rockefeller said the report would show how the "administration pursued a deceptive strategy, abusing intelligence reporting that the intelligence community had already warned was uncorroborated, unreliable and in some critical circumstances fabricated."

Rockefeller said a third segment , on the prewar intelligence assessment of postwar Iraq, could be issued later this month. But there was no set date for issuing the last two parts of Phase II , including a look at the politically divisive issue of whether policymakers manipulated intelligence reports to set the stage for war.

"We continue our work on the remaining part of our Phase II inquiry," said Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kan.

....and now, they have successfully delayed most of the "Phase II" release, past yet another election.....and it's exactly 27 months later than when this exchange took place:

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/5409538
Transcript for July 11
Guests: Sen. Pat Roberts, (R-Kan.); Sen. Jay Rockefeller, (D-W.Va.); David Broder, The Washington Post; Ron Brownstein, Los Angeles Times; William F. Buckley, Editor Emeritus, National ReviewJack Germond, Baltimore Sun
NBC News
Updated: 11:18 a.m. ET July 11, 2004

.........On the repetitive questioning, in regards to the terrorism section, which is a pretty good section, they came out with a pretty good product. On the WMD section, there was not repetitive questioning and we got into Curveball and we got into aluminum tubes and we got into UAVs and we got into mobile labs and all of that, and it was a lousy product. Now, I hope to heck that there was pressure by the policy-maker asking tough questions of every analyst, "Are you sure?" This was post-9/11. This was, "We can't be risk averts. We have to lean forward." I don't think that's pressure.

Now, in terms of the IG and the ombudsman, I've talked to both and I said, "Give me names of people that you have talked to." One of the individuals, and I won't get into this, said, "Well, I heard it in the cafeteria."

MR. RUSSERT: But, Senator, you...

SEN. ROBERTS: And also bottom line in terms of those statements, they indicated, "Was there any real pressure to change the product?" Answer? "No."

MR. RUSSERT: ...mentioned Curveball. Secretary Powell went before the United Nations in February and talked about the evidence that he had seen about Saddam having trucks and railroad cars to be used to disperse biological-chemical weapons. Secretary Powell then came on this program in May and said, "It turned out the sourcing was inaccurate and wrong and in some cases deliberately misleading."

SEN. ROBERTS: He's right.

MR. RUSSERT: And you talked about Curveball. Curveball was the son of Ahmad Chalabi, the former Iraqi exile's friend who came forward and said, "I'm a high-school--number one in my class. I know all about this." He was a fraud. And in the report, this is what the e-mail from the deputy chief of the CIA's Iraqi task force had to say. "Let's keep in mind the fact that this war's going to happen regardless of what Curveball said or didn't say, and that the Powers That Be probably aren't terribly interested in whether Curveball knows what he's talking about."

SEN. ROBERTS: OK. That's an isolated memo that we obviously now know is absolutely incorrect. Curveball really provided 98 percent of the assessment as to whether or not the Iraqis had a biological weapon. Yet, the DIA, the Defense Intelligence Agency, knew of his background. He has a very troubled background. Secondly, he was a single source that we did not have access to. And on the basis of that came the statement in the WMD section that Iraq had a biological capability. That's the kind offlaw in intelligence, and I think--I won't say willful, but the DIA should have shared that information with the CIA and the CIA should have gone from there.

MR. RUSSERT: Senator, Secretary of State Colin Powell was sent out before the United Nations and the world based on...

SEN. ROBERTS: I know. It was wrong.

MR. RUSSERT: ...that information.

SEN. ROBERTS: You couldn't be more upset or frustrated than both Jay and I. And let me tell you something else. Curveball and all of that information that is in our report, much of it is redacted. I can't really tell you some of the more specific details that would make your eyebrows even raise higher.

MR. RUSSERT: With all this being said, the second phase of your investigation as to whether or not the Bush administration deliberately altered, massaged the data, the intelligence in order to mislead the American people. Why shouldn't the American people have the benefit of your report before the November election?

SEN. ROCKEFELLER: Well, let's forget the election for a moment, and I know that sounds like a frivolous thing to say, but it needs to be made very clear here that--two things. Number one, I think, is the fact that Pat Roberts and I worked very closely together with a lot of pressure from people from both of our membership, colleagues.

SEN. ROBERTS: Yeah, we felt pressured.

SEN. ROCKEFELLER: Yeah, we felt pressure to, you know, not do--put out this report that we did. Nevertheless, we were, in fact, under committee rules, and it was my hope from the very beginning—and we did not prevail because we are in the minority on the committee and in the Senate--to take up this whole question of what the administration said, what the administration did during this entire time. We actually only did prewar intelligence. That's all we did. The whole subject of what was the administration's role, what influence did they bring upon the American people, what pressure did they

or did they not bring was never really gone into.

MR. RUSSERT: Why not, Senator?

SEN. ROBERTS: We agreed that our first mission was to get the report done that we, you know, had to do. I thought it could be done in six months. We hit a little bit of a rocky path at first. There were some politics involved and all of that. And then I said we ought to be able to do this in six months. Well, then it became nine months and then it became a year. Every member had their say. We had to work with the CIA, and as a result, our staffers had to go back thousands and thousands and thousands of pages to get it right. We are doing...

MR. RUSSERT: Was there any political--was there any political pressure from the White House not to do the second part...

SEN. ROBERTS: None. None.

MR. RUSSERT: ...of the investigation until after the election?

SEN. ROBERTS: None. And they didn't even know about the second part of the--and now this thing has morphed into a change as to whether or not the administration has magnified or has changed it or has manipulated it. The whole key was the use of intelligence. And so consequently that is ongoing right now, as I speak, by our staff, as well as a--other priority goal which is to get at the reform measures that we must do on a very careful and deliberate basis. But even as I'm speaking our staff is working on
phase two and we will get it done.

MR. RUSSERT: Before the election?

SEN. ROBERTS: I don't know if we can get it done before the election. It is more important to get it right. Understand, too, that it is going to an independent commission after we get our work done. So we haven't heard the end of this by any means..........

Presumably, only the least damning portions of the Phase II senate intel. report were released, last month. It is long past the time that Rockefeller, rather than make excuses for Pat Roberts' blatant, politically motivated obstruction, should have resigned in protest....from the Senate Select Committee on Intel. Rockefeller has destroyed his own credibility and helped Roberts keep the rest of this information....the deliberate, fixing of "facts", to match the policy, that the "Downing Street Memos" described, in July, 2002, from the voters through both the 2004 and now, the 2006 elections.