Panel to See Prewar CIA Memos on Iraq ... White House Agrees on Release

Panel to See Prewar CIA Memos on Iraq
White House Agrees on Release
By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Wednesday, November 5, 2003; Page A24


The White House will agree to share with the Senate intelligence committee CIA memos from October 2002 that warned the White House against saying that Saddam Hussein was seeking to buy uranium in Africa, a White House official said yesterday.

Though White House lawyers must work out an arrangement with the committee staff for the documents to be made available, reaching agreement on the CIA memos leaves the committee with only one outstanding White House request -- permission to interview "individuals involved in briefing senior administration officials." The individuals remain unidentified and the request is under study, the White House official said.

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The Senate committee is also awaiting answers to questions recently posed to the Pentagon and CIA, as well as delivery of two major intelligence analyses from the State Department, sources said. In addition, no agreement has been reached on a request for testimony from CIA Director George J. Tenet.

As a result, Roberts said yesterday, it probably will be next year before the committee holds public hearings and releases its report on prewar Iraq intelligence.

"There are hundreds of pages to review, more than we ever expected" from recent requests, a senior congressional aide said yesterday. "And more is still coming in."



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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A512-2003Nov4.html

are making our regime look like they are cooperating. How many documents won't see the light of day and have probably been shredded? Any word about "Traitorgate" lately, I've heard nothing in weeks.