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Iraq intelligence
committee nixed
The Senate turns down a bill that
would have created a commission
designed to investigate intelligence
cited during the State of the Union
By James Kuhnhenn
Knight Ridder Newspapers (KRT)
WASHINGTON — With Republi
cans closing ranks around President
Bush, the Senate on Wednesday voted
down a Democratic proposal to create
an independent bipartisan commis
sion to investigate the administra
tion's use of secret intelligence to jus
tify war with Iraq.
Ihe vote came as George Tenet, the
director of the CIA, completed nearly
four hours of closed-door questioning
by Republican and Democratic sena
tors and as the White I louse fought
back against charges that it manipu
lated spy data to wage war against
Saddam I lussein.
The Senate killed the independ
ent-commission proposal 51-45 in a
party-line vote. Republicans accused
Democrats of playing politics and
argued that the I louse of Represen
tatives and Senate intelligence com
mittees already are conducting their
own inquiries, albeit behind closed
doors so far.
Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan„ the chair
man of the Senate Intelligence Com
mittee, reiterated his vow to hold pub
lic hearings on Iraq intelligence
matters in September.
In the past few days, Democrats
have grown increasingly aggressive in
their criticism of Bush's management
of the war and occupation of Iraq.
They've been motivated by the mili
tary's failure to find weapons of mass
destruction in the country and by the
White House admission last week
that the president's State of the Union
speech in January shouldn't have as
serted that Iraq tried to obtain urani
um in Africa to revive its nuclear
weapons program.
U.S. intelligence agencies had
warned for months before the
speech that they couldn't verify that
allegation, although Tenet acknowl
edged last Friday that he approved
Bush's inclusion of it in the speech,
in which the president credited his
source as British intelligence. De
mocrats suggest that the inclusion of
the unsubstantiated allegation be
trays the Bush administration's zeal
to go to war whether the facts justi
fied it or not.
The proposed independent com
mission, sponsored by Sen. Jon
Corzine, D-N.J., would have exam
ined whether Iraq had weapons of
mass destruction, whether it had links
to al-Qaida and whether it possessed
systems to deliver chemical, biologi
cal or nuclear weapons.
"We need to understand whether
this is part of a broader pattern, a se
lective release of information or just a
series of unfortunate snafus," Corzine
said of the uranium claim.
"I'm tired of making a mountain
out of a molehill," countered Sen. Ted
Stevens, R-Alaska. "Ibis is not Water
gate. It's not even truthgate.... This is
an attempt to smear the president of
the United States."
While most Republicans accused
Democrats of exploiting events in Iraq
for political gain, some said the ad
ministration's use of intelligence was
worth a detailed examination by the
intelligence committees.
"It is important to understand what
transpired," said Sen. Olympia
Snowe, R-Maine, a member of the
Senate intelligence panel. "Future
presidents, when they're making a de
cision based on intelligence, (the cur
rent controversy) could raise ques
tions about the veracity of that
intelligence. We never can allow that
to happen. It goes to the height of our
national security. However it came
about, we need to know about it."
Tenet's appearance before the Sen
ate Intelligence Committee was his
first on Capitol Mill since he took re
sponsibility last week for the inclu
sion of the uranium reference in
Bush's speech.
"The director was very contrite, he
was very candid, he was very forth
coming," Roberts said afterward.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Vir
ginia, the Democratic vice chairman
of the committee, described the ques
tioning as "very rigorous."
(c) 2003, Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
Distributed by Knight Ridder/Tribune
Information Services.
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