Phase II report not to be completed until next year, (Roberts said last

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week--it was to be done this week!!


http://warandpiece.com/

Phase II report not to be completed until next year, the Post reports. So perhaps it can be a gift for Veterans' Day 2006. Forgive me if my recollection is incorrect, but wasn't Senate Intelligence committee chair Pat Roberts saying after Reid shut the Senate down last week to demand a status report on Phase II that the move was a "political stunt" since everybody knew that the report would be ready as soon as this week?
Posted by Laura at 09:27 AM

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1. WashPost link

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2005/11/09/AR2005110902203.html

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2. WP--"We are not looking to place blame," Feinstein said

......The most contentious part of the second phase -- comparing public officials' prewar statements to the intelligence available at the time -- has for now been turned over to the committee staff for additional work. The staff has been directed to collect major statements about Iraq's weapons programs by administration officials and members of Congress, as well as any relevant intelligence circulating at the time, whether it supported or undercut the statements, officials said.

"We want to look at all the intelligence community work and see how it was used," Feinstein said. Under the original plan of Chairman Pat Roberts (R-Kan.), the process was to have been simpler: Statements were to be analyzed to see only if there was intelligence that substantiated them, without looking at contrary intelligence.

One example of the work ahead, Feinstein said, would be analyzing President Bush's statement in his 2003 State of the Union address saying the British government had learned that Iraq had sought uranium from Africa.

"We are not looking to place blame," Feinstein said, "but if the president said something like the 16 words on uranium, somebody put them in there, and we want to know what there was before" the speechwriter. She suggested that Robert Joseph, then the National Security Council staff member supervising preparation of the Iraq weapons material in the speech and now undersecretary of state for arms control, might be the type of witness called to testify.

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4. Feinsteien wants to look at Powell--(and Curveball info).

As another example of what she thought should be covered, Feinstein pointed to intelligence covered in then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell's Feb. 5, 2003, speech to the U.N. Security Council. He mentioned reports of several Iraqi programs -- later proved incorrect -- including allegations that Iraq had mobile factories for making biological agents, which came from a source known as "Curveball" who had been flagged by a CIA station chief as unreliable. "There was discrediting information in the mill at the time, and we want to find what went to Powell," Feinstein said.

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6. Too bad. I am.

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3. "Next year" could mean right before midterms

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7. He already postponed it once just before "election" he will again

don't you think. NO MORE YEARS! STOP GOP STALLING! DO PHASE II NOW! Enough bullshit, enough dragging your GOP feet.

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5. Next October's good.