Just over a month ago, I expressed pessimism about news that the Senate Intelligence committee was finally going to release its report on administration misuse of pre-war intelligence. This is the report Pat Roberts promised to release after the presidential election...and then didn't, until Harry Reid's threat to shut down the Senate made him promise to really, truly release it this time...and then still didn't release it. That report.
Via an e-mail from regular commenter Ahab, it appears my pessimism was justified:
A long-awaited Senate analysis comparing the Bush administration's public statements about the threat posed by Saddam Hussein with the evidence senior officials reviewed in private remains mired in partisan recrimination and will not be released before the November elections, key senators said yesterday.So partisan hacks on the committee are still holding back the really incendiary stuff. You could knock me over with a feather.
Instead, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence will vote today to declassify two less controversial chapters of the panel's report, on the use of intelligence in the run-up to the Iraq war, for release as early as Friday.
Sigh.
On edit: added link re Senate shutdown.
[That's all, folks]
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