Senate finally finishes Iraq intel probe

WASHINGTON, May 10 (UPI) -- U.S. senators have completed the long-awaited second part of their review of pre-war intelligence on Iraq.

The chairman and vice chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, Jay Rockefeller, D-W.Va., and Christopher Bond, R-Mo., said in a statement earlier this week that the committee had adopted the remaining sections of the second part of its report on pre-war intelligence assessments about post-war Iraq.

They said they would send the classified report to the director of national intelligence so that it could be redacted for declassification.

"Following declassification, the committee will release the report to the public," the senators said.

The committee released its first report dealing with U.S. intelligence failures -- those concerning Iraq's weapons of mass destruction -- in July 2004.

Last fall the committee released two of the five sections of its second report, covering post-war findings about Iraq's weapons programs and links to terrorism and how they compare with pre-war assessments; and the use by U.S. intelligence agencies of information from Ahmed Chalabi's Iraqi National Congress.