From the New York Times
Dated Friday January 16
Democrat Challenges Bush on Iraqi Intelligence Lapse
By Douglas Jehl
Wahsington, January 15 -- The top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee is calling on President Bush to provide a public accounting next week of why prewar American intelligence assessments that Iraq possessed illicit weapons now appear to have been mistaken.
Mr. Bush should use his State of the Union address on Tuesday "to acknowledge the problems and outline specific steps to fix them," Representative Jane Harman of California will say in a speech in Los Angeles, according to an advance text provided by her office.
Despite months of intensive searches, American inspectors in Iraq have not yet found evidence of the chemical and biological weapons and the nuclear weapons program in Iraq that the intelligence agencies said existed.
The Bush administration, which pointed to those assessments as a main reason for invading Iraq last March, has said almost nothing publicly since October about the status of the search for illegal weapons, except to insist that it still too soon to say whether the intelligence agencies were wrong.
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Of course, we know the reason. Dick Cheney told the CIA to make sure it was mistaken, just the way he wanted it.
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