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Tuesday, May 29, 2007 08:46 EDT

Senate report: Bush administration ignored warnings about Iraq

The latest report about prewar intelligence from the Senate Intelligence Committee shows the administration was warned that an invasion of Iraq would help Iran and al-Qaida.
On Friday, the U.S. Senate Select Committee on Intelligence -- commonly known as the Senate Intelligence Committee -- released the latest in a series of reports on prewar intelligence about Iraq. This report provides documentation of intelligence that senior administration officials knew, or should have known, about Intelligence Community warnings that an invasion could benefit al-Qaida and Iran. On this page and the next are screen shots of some of the committee's conclusions; on the third page is a screen shot of one of the Intelligence Community assessments from which the committee drew those conclusions. The full report, which also includes a list of those to whom such assessments were delivered in the prewar stages, can be downloaded here.

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