WMD Commission to Release Tough Findings

WASHINGTON - A presidential commission investigating weapons of mass destruction is highly critical of U.S. intelligence agencies' performance on Iran (news - web sites), North Korea (news - web sites) and Libya and attempts to lay out what went wrong on Iraq (news - web sites), according to individuals familiar with the findings.
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Individuals familiar with the report, who spoke only on the condition of anonymity, said the commission devoted significant time to dissecting what went wrong on the Iraq intelligence, including many issues that have been examined by internal government investigations and the Senate Intelligence Committee.

The commission, for instance, has reconsidered the issue of aluminum tubes. A National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq in October 2002 said that most intelligence agencies believed that Iraq's "aggressive pursuit" of high-strength aluminum tubes provided "compelling evidence" that the Saddam Hussein (news - web sites)'s regime was reconstituting its uranium enrichment effort and nuclear program.

In its report last summer, the Senate Intelligence Committee found that the Energy Department was more accurate in its assessment that Iraq sought the tubes for a conventional rocket program, not a nuclear program.

http://story.news.yahoo.com/news?tmpl=story&cid=544&ncid=693&e=1&u=/ap/20050324/ap_on_go_pr_wh/intelligence_commission

"Everybody was wrong, noone was at fault"

McCain's been quoted as saying we have to find out how this happened so it doesn't happen again, and then turning around and saying what a GOOD thing it is that it happenend.

this should make it a little more difficult for the adm to make the case for a war on Iran?

Maybe I should actually READ a topic sometime.

The bad news is, it's the "Peter Principle."