Senators: Bush Credibility Rests in Probe

The credibility of President Bush and the nation are at stake with the information that led the United States into the Iraq war, two members of the Senate Intelligence Committee say.

Investigations under way by the committee's staff, the CIA and the FBI marked a good beginning, Sens. Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Chuck Hagel, R-Neb., said Sunday on CNN's "Late Edition."

"Ultimately, the public needs to be reassured that, in fact, the intelligence the president was given ....(and) was used, and how he framed the debate and the decision to go into Iraq, was intelligence that they can have confidence in," Hagel said.

"And that's, by the way, important for the world to have that same confidence in our word."

shrub credibility

"Ultimately, the public needs to be reassured that, in fact, the intelligence the president was given ....(and) was used, and how he framed the debate and the decision to go into Iraq, was intelligence that they can have confidence in," Hagel said.

...congressional inquiry-- "reassure the public," not "dig out the truth."

The probe will take place right after they indict Ken Lay.

That would be March 3, 2004, on the planet Klaaatu, in the galaxy Imaginarium.

why not go along with Kucinich's call for an "INDEPENDENT" investigation?