Senate Select Committee on Intelligence: Articles & Commentary

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URL data scrape of an archive of past stories relating to the "Second Phase" of the Senate Intelligence Cimmittee's Pre Iraq War Intel Investigation":

a.) Whether public statements and reports and testimony regarding Iraq by U.S. government officials made between (1991's Gulf war) and (2003's) Operation Iraqi Freedom were substantiated by intelligence information:

• 2002.10.27 - Infighting among U.S. intelligence agencies fuels dispute over Iraq
• 2003.06.06 - Bush, Aides made some prewar claims they couldn't back up, documents say
• 2003.06.12 - White House was warned of dubious intelligence used in speech, official says
• 2003.07.02 - Internal review backs CIA on Iraq, but notes lack of details
• 2003.07.03 - Bush administration pushed for proof linking Saddam, al-Qaida
• 2003.07.18 - Questions, criticism surround information that led to start of war
• 2004.02.02 - Iraq intelligence efforts led by Cheney magnified errors, officials say
• 2004.02.06 - Intelligence officials warned that Iraq WMD information was iffy
• 2004.02.06 - What went wrong with Iraq intelligence?
• 2004.02.09 - Doubts dissent stripped from public version of Iraq assessment
• 2004.02.13 - Most pre-war information from Iraqi defectors was iffy officials say
• 2004.03.15 - Iraqi exile group fed false information to news media
• 2004.04.03 - INC supplied defectors who were sources of questionable pre-war information, officials say
• 2004.05.18 - Iraqi group linked to questionable intelligence loses U.S. funding
• 2004.05.21 - Officials investigate how INC's Chalabi obtained U.S. intelligence
• 2005.03.31 - U.S. intelligence on Iraq `dead wrong,' commission finds
• 2005.05.05 - Downing Street memo indicates Bush made intelligence fit Iraq policy
• 2005.11.04 - Italy provided U.S. with faulty uranium intelligence, officials insist

b.) How the pre-war assessments and the post-war findings about Iraq's weapons programs and links to terrorism, compare:

• 2002.09.06 - Lack of hard evidence of Iraqi weapons worries top U.S. officials
• 2002.10.04 - CIA report reveals analysts' split over extent of Iraqi nuclear threat
• 2003.04.10 - Bush faces tough choices for Post-War Iraq
• 2003.06.02 - Failure to find weapons in Iraq leads to intelligence scrutiny
• 2003.07.11 - No real planning for postwar Iraq
• 2003.10.14 - CIA investigated tip on WMD from previously discredited source
• 2004.02.06 - What went wrong with Iraq intelligence?
• 2004.02.09 - Doubts, dissent stripped from public version of Iraq assessment
• 2004.02.13 - Most pre-war information from Iraqi defectors was iffy, officials say
• 2004.03.15 - Iraqi exile group fed false information to news media
• 2004.05.17 - White House released claims of defector deemed unreliable by CIA,
• 2004.06.21 - Intelligence experts cast doubt on ties between Iraq, al-Qaida,
• 2004.10.17 - Post-war planning non-existent

c.) Pre-war intelligence assessments about post-war Iraq

• 2002.10.27 - Infighting among U.S. intelligence agencies fuels dispute over Iraq,
• 2003.05.31 - Troubling questions over justification for war in Iraq
• 2004.02.02 - Iraq intelligence efforts led by Cheney magnified errors, officials say
• 2004.02.12 - Panel to probe whether officials exaggerated prewar intelligence
• 2004.05.17 - White House released claims of defector deemed unreliable by CIA
• 2004.07.15 - Former CIA director used Pentagon ties to introduce Iraqi defector
• 2004.10.22 - Post-election purge, reform appears likely within CIA

d.) Intelligence activities conducted by the Office of the Undersecretary of Defense for Policy, Douglas Feith

• 2002.08.16 - Planning Unit Is Another Sign Bush Is Preparing to Oust Saddam
• 2002.10.27 - Infighting among U.S. intelligence agencies fuels dispute over Iraq,
• 2003.11.05 - Saddam wanted secret negotiations with U.S., officials say,
• 2004.02.27 - Iraqi National Congress faces growing number of investigations
• 2004.04.03 - INC supplied defectors who were sources of questionable pre-war information, officials say
• 2003.05.31 - Troubling questions over justification for war in Iraq
• 2003.06.02 - Failure to find weapons in Iraq leads to intelligence scrutiny
• 2003.07.11 - No real planning for postwar Iraq
• 2004.10.22 - Post-election purge, reform appears likely within CIA,

e.) The use of intelligence information provided by the Iraqi National Congress

• 2002.02.20 - Iraqi opposition leader suspected of misusing U.S. funds, but may get more
• 2002.08.16 - Planning Unit Is Another Sign Bush Is Preparing to Oust Saddam
• 2004.02.21 - Officials: U.S. still paying millions to group that provided false Iraqi intelligence
• 2004.02.27 - Iraqi National Congress faces growing number of investigations
• 2004.03.15 - Iraqi exile group fed false information to news media
• 2004.05.18 - Iraqi group linked to questionable intelligence loses U.S. funding
• 2004.05.21 - Iraqi exile group may have violated rules barring it from lobbying
• 2004.05.21 - Officials investigate how INC's Chalabi obtained U.S. intelligence
• 2004.05.24 - Relationship with Chalabi proves costly for Bush administration
• 2004.05.28 - Alliance between Chalabi, U.S. conservatives now in ruins