I wonder if that Metal of Freedom is enough to buy Tenet's silence
CIA, senators trade barbs over 'Curveball'
http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/04/06/intelligence.curveball.ap/index.html
WASHINGTON (AP) -- The CIA and members of Congress said they want to know how a presidential commission unearthed details on intelligence failures about Iraq's pre-war weapons programs that previous investigations missed.
Of particular interest is information that emerged in last week's report about how doubts were handled regarding a leading source on Saddam Hussein's alleged mobile biological weapons labs -- an Iraqi scientist who defected to Germany, codenamed "Curveball."
Porter Goss, who became CIA director last September, has instructed officials to determine what happened and why the details did not come to light earlier, said his spokeswoman, Jennifer Millerwise.
"It was an unhappy surprise to the director that his first understanding of this issue was when he first read" the commission's report, Millerwise said Wednesday.
Senate Intelligence Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, also acknowledged President Bush's intelligence commission had details that did not emerge during his committee's yearlong investigation into the Iraq assessments, released last July.
If Bush's intelligence commission learned "something obvious," Roberts said, "we want to make sure the intelligence community does fill in those gaps so we have a clear picture."
Other lawmakers are angrier. "As far as I am concerned, the CIA threw us a curve ball," said Sen. Carl Levin, D-Michigan, also a member of the Intelligence Committee.
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