Some of the Pentagon's prewar intelligence work, including a contention that the CIA underplayed the likelihood of al-Qaida connections to Saddam Hussein, was inappropriate but not illegal, a Defense Department investigation has concluded.
In a report to be presented to Congress on Friday, the department's inspector general said former Pentagon policy chief Douglas J. Feith had not engaged in illegal activities through the creation of special offices to review intelligence. Some Democrats also have contended that Feith misled Congress about the basis of the administration's assertions on the threat posed by Iraq, but the Pentagon investigation did not support that.
Two people familiar with the findings discussed the main points and some details Thursday on condition they not be identified.
The Senate Armed Services Committee has scheduled a hearing Friday to receive the findings by Thomas F. Gimble, the Pentagon's acting inspector general. The committee's chairman, Carl Levin, D-Mich., has been a leading critic of Feith's role in prewar intelligence activities and has accused him of deceiving Congress.
Levin has asserted that President Bush took the country to war in Iraq based in part on intelligence assessments - some shaped by Feith's office - that were off base and did not fully reflect the views of the intelligence community.
The Pentagon is just trying to get their version of events into the media before the Democrats launch their investigations. I imagine that everybody who was involved in lying us into this illegal war are sweating bullets.
But it will not help them. The investigations will continue forward and we WILL get to the truth. We have waited far too long to let them cheat us out of learning how this all took place.
I am so tired of being lied to by this group of criminals that I can hardly see straight.
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