It is finally here, folks, the Senate Intelligence Committee's report on pre-war Iraq intelligence, and it is pretty damn damning:
The long-awaited report, said Sen. Carl Levin (news, bio, voting record), D-Mich., a member of the committee, is "a devastating indictment of the Bush-Cheney administration's unrelenting, misleading and deceptive attempts" to link Saddam to al-Qaida.
I can't find the report yet, but it's being released today, according to the
AP.
(If there's another diary on this, I'll delete mine.)
The declassified document being released Friday by the Senate Intelligence Committee also explores the role that inaccurate information supplied by the anti-Saddam exile group the Iraqi National Congress had in the march to war.
It discloses for the first time an October 2005
CIA assessment that prior to the war Saddam's government "did not have a relationship, harbor, or turn a blind eye toward Zarqawi and his associates."
UPDATE: Thanks to
MLDB, we have links to the actual Phase 2 reports released today by the Senate Intelligence Committee on
pre-war intelligence accuracy and
the role of the Iraq National Congress in deceiving the world about Saddam's WMD programs (or lack thereof).