http://www.senate.gov/~rockefeller/news/2007/pr052507.htmlReport Details Intelligence Community Judgments Prior to War About Expected Difficulties Following Invasion--Washington, DC -- The Chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Senator Jay Rockefeller, today unveiled one of the final remaining sections of the Committee’s review on pre-war intelligence. The report made public today, “prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq,” is available on the Committee’s website and is accompanied by two recently declassified Intelligence Community assessments from January 2003. www.intelligence.senate.gov
“Today’s report shows that the Intelligence Community gave the Administration plenty of warning about the difficulties we would face if the decision was made to go to war. These dire warnings were widely distributed at the highest levels of government, and it’s clear that the Administration didn’t plan for any of them,” Rockefeller said.
“The Intelligence Community believed an American invasion would be exploited by Iran and al Qaeda terrorists and that an occupation of Iraq would fuel Islamist extremism. They also assessed that al Qaeda would seek to re-establish its presence in Afghanistan while the United States was diverted in Iraq.
“Sadly, the Administration’s refusal to heed these dire warnings, and worse, to plan for them, has led to tragic consequences for which our nation is paying a terrible price.
“Finally, the report shows that the Administration was not forthcoming with the American people about the potential costs of going to war,” Rockefeller concluded.
Report link:
http://www.intelligence.senate.gov/prewar.pdf
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