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Document leak embarrassment in US intelligence inquiry on Iraq
Washington, Nov 06: The leak of a democratic document describing a strategy to highlight contradictions in CIA reports and statements by the US administration about Iraq intensified animosity at a Senate committee on Wednesday.
Washington, Nov 06: The leak of a democratic document describing a strategy to highlight contradictions in CIA reports and statements by the US administration about Iraq intensified animosity at a Senate committee on Wednesday.
Several republican senators accused democrats of seeking to make political mileage out of a bipartisan inquiry relating to the quality of intelligence used to justify the US-led war on Iraq.
Tension has heightened between members of the Senate intelligence committee with the approach of next year's election season.
"Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq," the memo said. "Yet, we have an important role to play in the revealing the misleading -- if not flagrantly dishonest methods and motives -- of the senior administration officials who made the case for a unilateral, preemptive war."
"The approach outline above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives and methods," the document leaked yesterday continued. Republicans pounced on the memo, portraying it as a democratic attempt to politicize the probe into prewar intelligence gathering.
Bureau Report
Tension has heightened between members of the Senate intelligence committee with the approach of next year's election season.
"Intelligence issues are clearly secondary to the public's concern regarding the insurgency in Iraq," the memo said. "Yet, we have an important role to play in the revealing the misleading -- if not flagrantly dishonest methods and motives -- of the senior administration officials who made the case for a unilateral, preemptive war."
"The approach outline above seems to offer the best prospect for exposing the administration's dubious motives and methods," the document leaked yesterday continued. Republicans pounced on the memo, portraying it as a democratic attempt to politicize the probe into prewar intelligence gathering.
Bureau Report