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September
12, 2006
Senate
Intelligence Report Refutes Iraq-al-Qaida Link
President Bush on Monday defended the decision to invade Iraq,
despite recent Senate reports that found Iraqi defectors misled
the United States and uncovered no link between Iraq and al-Qaida.
Margaret Warner
speaks to two members of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence:
Carl Levin, D-Mich., and Kit Bond, R-Mo.
Senate
report (PDF) comparing prewar and postwar findings about
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction and link to terrorism
Senate
report (PDF) on use of intelligence provided by Iraqi
National Congress
March
3, 2006
Retired
Senior CIA Official Says Prewar Intelligence Was Misused Publicly
Recently retired CIA official Paul Pillar recently wrote an article
in Foreign Affairs Journal that prewar "intelligence was
misused publicly to justify decisions already made." He
also said warnings of post-invasion instability were ignored.
Gwen Ifill looks at the charges and discusses the issue with Pillar
and other administration officials.
November
4 ,
2005
Former
Powell Chief of Staff Accuses White House of Orchestrating intelligence
about Iraq
Retired
Col. Lawrence Wilkerson, former chief of staff to Secretary of
State Colin Powell, says Vice President Dick Cheney and Secretary
of Defense Donald Rumsfeld hijacked "some of the most important
decisions about U.S. national security... including vital decisions
about post-war Iraq."
Following
a discussion with Wilkerson about his contentions,
Randy Scheunemann, private consultant and former president of
the Committee for the Liberation of Iraq, and David Corn, Washington
editor of The Nation, discuss the case for war.
November
2,
2005
Senate
Democrats Push for Probe into Prewar Iraq Intelligence
The
Senate this week launched a bipartisan review of the investigation
into whether the administration manipulated intelligence prior
to invading Iraq in 2003 after Democrats used a rare procedural
move that temporarily closed the Senate.
June
30,
2005
Intelligence
Shakeup Aims to Bolster FBI's Anti-terror Focus
President
Bush ordered a further shakeup in the nation's intelligence structure
Wednesday, based largely on the recommendations of a panel that
investigated pre-Iraq war intelligence efforts. The largest step
involved the creation of a national security service within the
FBI that would report to the director of national intelligence,
John Negroponte. Three experts weigh the president's decision
and what impact it may have on domestic security as well as American
civil liberties.
Update:
White
House Orders Intelligence Changes Based on WMD Report
(6/29/03)
March
31,
2005
Report
Finds Intelligence Agencies Were 'Dead Wrong' on Iraq's Weapons
Programs
In
a damning assessment of the nation's prewar intelligence efforts
in Iraq, the presidential commission charged with investigating
U.S. spy agencies found analysts were "dead wrong" about
Iraq's weapons of mass destruction programs and continue to know
"disturbing little" about other threats to American
security.
The
commission's report, released Thursday, also called for sweeping
changes to prevent future failures. The panel outlined 74 recommendations
the president ought to implement to improve the nation's intelligence
capabilities, including giving broader powers to the new director
of national intelligence and major changes at the FBI to combine
the bureau's counterterrorism and counterintelligence resources
into a single office.
Margaret
Warner speaks with commission Chairmen Laurence Silberman, an
appeals court judge, and former Virginia Democratic Sen. Charles
Robb about their findings.
The
Commission's Final Report (all files are in Adobe
Acrobat)
Document: Overview
of the Report (109 Kb)
Document: Conclusion
(17 Kb)
Document: The
Full Report (3.3 Mb)
October
7,
2004
Report Sparks Political
Debate over Rationale for Iraq War
The
chief U.S. weapons inspector for Iraq, Charles Duelfer, told the
Senate Armed Services Committee on Wednesday that Iraq had begun
destroying its weapons of mass destruction in 1991 and had none
by 1996, contrary to what the White House asserted before the
Iraq war.
Jim Lehrer speaks with two senators on that committee
about the conclusions of Duelfer's report and its impact on the
presidential campaign.
Update:
Iraq Report Suggests Saddam Had No WMD
Document:
Final Report of the U.S. Inspector
July
20,
2004
Wilson
Defends Assertions the Iraq Did Not Seek to Buy Uranium from Niger
The
Senate Intelligence Committee report has left open the question
of whether Iraq tried to obtain uranium from Niger, but three
Republican senators have questioned the credibility of a CIA investigator
who said the allegation was unfounded. Margaret Warner discusses
Iraq's alleged desire for "yellowcake" uranium with the investigator,
former Ambassador Joseph Wilson, and Sen. Christopher Bond, R-Mo.
Document:
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the U.S. Intelligence
Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (PDF)
July
14, 2004
Blair
Takes Responsibility for 'Flawed' Iraq Intelligence
A British inquiry reported Wednesday that the country's prewar intelligence on
Iraq had "serious flaws" and was partially based on "unreliable" sources, but
the report found no evidence of deliberate distortion on the part of the Blair
government. British
Prime Minister Tony Blair said he "fully accepts" the report's conclusions.
Ray
Suarez and two experts discuss the impact of the Butler report on the Blair administration.
Update:
Britain's Iraq Intelligence Was Flawed, Inquiry Finds Document:
The Butler Committee Report
July
9, 2004
Senate
Panel Criticizes CIA for Incorrect Iraq Intelligence
The Senate Intelligence Committee released a report Friday harshly critical of
the CIA for what it said were a "series of failures" in its analysis
of Iraq's weapons of mass destruction program before the war. Committee Chairman
Pat Roberts and Vice Chairman Jay Rockefeller discuss the report with Jim Lehrer.
Analysis:
Jeffrey Brown gets additional perspectives on the committee's findings from David
Kay, the former lead weapons inspector in Iraq for the United Nations and the
United States; Larry Johnson, a former CIA analyst and State Department official;
and Peter Brookes, a former deputy assistant secretary of Defense. RealAudio:
Sens. Pat Roberts and Jay Rockefeller brief reporters on their findings. Document:
The Senate Intelligence Committee Report on the U.S. Intelligence Community's
Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq (PDF) Past
Reports:
The
Iraq War (March 2003 - May 2003)
Iraq:
The Road To War (Sept. 2002 - March 2003)
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