WASHINGTON, Oct. 24 (UPI) -- A Senate committee report on flawed intelligence on Iraq's weapons will focus on the CIA rather than the Bush administration, the Washington Post said Friday.
The newspaper said the Select Committee on Intelligence is preparing a blistering report on intelligence that is critical of CIA Director George Tenet and other intelligence officials for overstating the weapons and terrorism case.
Asked about the upcoming report, Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., chairman of the committee, said "the executive was ill served by the intelligence community." The intelligence was sometimes "sloppy" and inconclusive, he said. "That's a concern I have with the total report" on Iraq.
Staff members interviewed more than 100 people who collected and analyzed the intelligence used to back up statements about Iraq's chemical, biological and nuclear weapons capability and its links to terrorist groups.
Committee sources and intelligence figures said as the presidential political season approaches, it's critical who gets blamed for misleading the U.S. public if weapons of mass destruction are never found in Iraq -- the president or his intelligence chief.
