U.S. senators to examine Bush's Iraq statements

Updated: Dispute Prompts Scrutiny of Bush's Daily Reading - nytimes.com February 14, 2004

WASHINGTON (AP) - The Senate intelligence committee has agreed to expand its review of intelligence on Iraq to examine whether the Bush administration accurately described the information it had on Saddam Hussein's weapons. The committee will examine "whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials (between the 1991 Gulf War and the Iraq War) were substantiated by intelligence information," committee leaders said in a statement.

The panel is nearing completion of a report expected to be extremely critical of the intelligence agencies' collection and analysis of prewar intelligence.

Since the inquiry began in June, Democrats have insisted that the commission also examine whether the administration distorted intelligence to help build the case for war. Republicans have refused and each side has accused the other of using the traditionally bipartisan committee for political purposes.

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