Intelligence Probe Takes Shape/WP/Walter Pincus

Intelligence Probe Takes Shape
Senators Discuss Inquiry Into Administration Statements About Iraq

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Thursday, November 10, 2005; Page A07

The Senate Select Committee on Intelligence yesterday worked out a tentative arrangement for pursuing its inquiry into how the Bush administration publicly portrayed the intelligence on Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, with Democrats saying they expected some officials to be called to testify before the review is completed.

"There is a new resolution of the way we are going," Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.) said yesterday after the committee met in closed session for 90 minutes. Feinstein is one of six committee members charged with resolving differences over how to proceed with the "phase two" inquiry
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902203.html

....."We are not looking to place blame," Feinstein said, "but if the president said something like the 16 words on uranium, somebody put them in there, and we want to know what there was before" the speechwriter. She suggested that Robert Joseph, then the National Security Council staff member supervising preparation of the Iraq weapons material in the speech and now undersecretary of state for arms control, might be the type of witness called to testify.

they need a committie just to figure out how to proceed with the inquiry? For crying out loud, every mother and father who have lost a son/daughter because of this war has a right to know everrything.....there should be no negotiating on how to proceed.....everything should be allowed until the truth comes out!

One example of the work ahead, Feinstein said, would be analyzing President Bush's statement in his 2003 State of the Union address saying the British government had learned that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.

they're goin after the WHOPPER :bounce:

peace