The Senate Intelligence committee releases a new part of its Phase II investigation (.pdf): Report on Prewar Intelligence Assessments about Postwar Iraq. Chairman Rockefeller: "Today’s report shows that the Intelligence Community gave the Administration plenty of warning about the difficulties we would face if the decision was made to go to war. These dire warnings were widely distributed at the highest levels of government, and it’s clear that the Administration didn’t plan for any of them. The Intelligence Community believed an American invasion would be exploited by Iran and al Qaeda terrorists and that an occupation of Iraq would fuel Islamist extremism. They also assessed that al Qaeda would seek to re-establish its presence in Afghanistan while the United States was diverted in Iraq." (Link fixed).

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Posted by Laura at May 25, 2007 12:03 PM