February 9, 2007 Pentagon
Report Finds Intelligence Flawed But Lawful An internal Pentagon report
outlined at a Senate hearing Friday sharply criticized efforts to link Saddam
Hussein's regime with al-Qaida. The Defense Department's acting Inspector General
Thomas Gimble said a Pentagon policy unit inappropriately pushed the tie despite
doubts in the intelligence community. After a summary of the hearing, NewsHour
analysts Mark Shields and David Brooks discuss the political implications of the
report.
Timeline: The Case
for War -- Prewar | Postwar A chronological presentation of source documents,
speeches as well as NewsHour analysis and interviews. All materials relate to
the intelligence of Iraq's alleged weapons of mass destruction and the
U.S. government's case for war against former Iraqi leader Saddam Hussein.
Prewar
Media Coverage In the run-up to the Iraq
war, government officials and media organizations widely reported on Iraq's alleged
weapons of mass destruction (WMD). Since then, the failure to find any major weapons
programs in Iraq has sparked a reassessment of the media's performance on reporting
the WMD issue.
The
British Inquiry An overview of Britain's Iraq intelligence inquiry
headed by former Cabinet Secretary Lord Robin Butler.
Chasing
Saddam's Weapons An inside look at the hunt for weapons of mass
destruction in Iraq and the unanswered questions of whether Saddam possessed banned
weapons before the U.S.-led war.
