WP: Report on Prewar Intelligence Lagging (not till after election)

[kskiska]

Information Democrats Want Most Might Not Come Out Until After Election

Sunday, July 30, 2006; Page A07

When angry Democrats briefly shut down the Senate last year to protest the slow pace of a congressional investigation into prewar intelligence on Iraq, Senate Minority Leader Harry M. Reid (D-Nev.) claimed a rare victory.

Republicans called it a stunt but promised to quickly wrap up the inquiry. Sen. Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, which is overseeing the investigation, said his report was near completion and there was no need for the fuss.

That was nine months ago.

The Republican-led committee, which agreed in February 2004 to write the report, has yet to complete its work. Just two of five planned sections of the committee's findings are fully drafted and ready to be voted on by members, according to Democratic and Republican staffers. Committee sources involved with the report, who spoke on the condition of anonymity, said they are working hard to complete it. But disputing Roberts, they said they had started almost from scratch in November after Democrats staged their protest.

Roberts spokeswoman Sarah Ross Little said the slow pace is partially the result of Roberts's desire to give members a chance for input. She said Roberts will make public the two completed sections "when they are approved by the committee and have been declassified," rather than wait for the other three to be done, as well. If the sections are not approved by the committee next week, they will have to wait until members return from recess in September.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/07/29/AR2006072900608.html

[CraigHinTenn]

1. Another reason Democrats need to have control of Senate

[BadGimp]

3. It will never happen..

The GOP has control of the voting machines.

[BadGimp]

2. surprise, surprise, surprise..

[wellst0nev0ter]

4. Just Come Out And Say It

Pat Roberts is NOT going to write that report because he's too much of a butt monkey for Bush's agenda.

[Supersedeas]

5. Ready but they will delay voting on it-a problem with Accountability maybe

[gratuitous]

6. Wow, the Post actually noted that this was a "slow pace"

That's tantamount to treason at the Washington Post Stenographers' Pool of Administration Toadies and Sycophants. Someone's going to get called in to discuss this "slanted" and "biased" coverage.