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Seeking the Whole Truth on Iraq

Democrats To Press for Iraq Intelligence” – The Boston Globe

“Democrats in Congress this week want to force the White House to release the daily intelligence briefings that President Bush reviewed in the months before the US invasion of Iraq—an attempt to undercut the president’s claim that lawmakers saw the same reports that he did before voting to authorize the war.

Senator Edward M. Kennedy, Democrat of Massachusetts, said that seeing the briefs is the only way lawmakers can determine whether the Bush administration manipulated intelligence to justify the war—and the best way to ensure that future presidents and Congress are on the same page when it comes to crucial intelligence matters.

‘It is essential to get to the bottom of the rush to war in Iraq not only to get the truth, but also because there are other threats on the horizon in Iran, North Korea, and elsewhere,” said Kennedy, who is offering an amendment to the intelligence authorization bill that would require Iraq-related daily briefs to be released. ‘’Americans deserve a White House that lifts the veil of secrecy, so that America can get it right next time.’

Senate Democrats want Bush to release the Iraq-related items in the Presidential Daily Briefs from the first two years of his presidency and from the last year of the Clinton administration. Senate aides said the Clinton-era briefs are important because Bush has said that he and President Clinton had seen the same intelligence.

Kennedy’s amendment is part of Democrats’ effort to turn up the pressure on Bush to open intelligence reports that have so far remained under wraps. Democrats on the House intelligence committee have renewed their calls for a House-led investigation on how the administration used prewar intelligence, though Republican leaders continue to reject it.”

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