WP: Dems Demand Probe of Prewar Intelligence

[RamboLiberal]

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A61442-2003Jul15.html

Democrats renewed calls Tuesday for an investigation into the Bush administration's handling of prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons programs, some of which turned out to be bogus.

Rep. Jane Harman, D-Calif., the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, said her committee's inquiry into intelligence on Iraq will look into President Bush's claim in his State of the Union speech that Iraq sought uranium from Africa - a statement apparently based on a series of documents now known to be forgeries.

"The speech should not have cited British information about which the U.S. intelligence community had expressed serious doubts," Harman, newly returned from a trip to Iraq, said in a statement. "I appreciate that the administration and (Director of Central Intelligence George J. Tenet) have acknowledged that it was a mistake to have included this information in the president's speech, but big questions remain about who forged the documents and the paper trail that followed."

Separately, Rep. Henry Waxman, D-Calif., sent a 12-page letter to House Intelligence Committee Chairman Porter Goss on Tuesday that spelled out his questions about prewar Iraqi intelligence and called for immediate, open hearings into the documents purporting to be from Niger.

"It is now abundantly clear that something fundamentally wrong has occurred," Waxman wrote. "The issues about the Niger hoax ... should not be allowed to fester."

[annagull]

1. Oh what delicious irony it will be

when a Republican House and Senate are forced to impeach their beloved Bush*! I bet ole Tom Delay will cry like a little girl.

[dusty64]

2. The People need to

pressure their "reps" to do this, otherwise it is NEVER going to happen.