Harry Reid: “Key facts about the Intelligence Committee's phase II, June 4, 2003: Intelligence Committee commits to bipartisan review…”

“Key facts about the Intelligence Committee's phase II, June 4, 2003: Intelligence Committee commits to bipartisan review of the deeply flawed intelligence on Iraq WMD phase I. February 12, 2004, Intelligence Committee commits to phase II investigation looking at five areas, including whether the administration exaggerated and manipulated intelligence. July 9, 2004, committee publishes phase I report on the intelligence agencies' mistakes on Iraq. Senator Rockefeller says publicly that phase II is as yet unbegun. Republican Chairman Roberts says it is one of my top priorities. July 11 on ``Meet the Press,'' Republican Chairman Roberts says: Even as I'm speaking, our staff is working on phase II and will get it done. Fall of 2004, House Intelligence Committee, after no follow- through on the Iraq WMD investigation, the House announced on May 2003 no final report. Republican Committee Chairman Porter Goss is selected as CIA Director. Regarding the question of the Valerie Plame leak, Goss previously said: ``Show me a blue dress and some DNA and I will give you an investigation.'' November 2004, we had the Presidential election. March 2005, the President's hand-picked WMD Intelligence Committee says the intelligence agencies got the intelligence dead wrong, but says that under the President's terms of reference we are not authorized to investigate how policymakers used the intelligence assessments they received from the intelligence community.…”