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of Ramadan suicide atwhen coordinau-tacks in Baghdad killed at least US - - - in- telligence failures could pose election-yea- r risks for Bush No one could be certain where it would lead who it would touch or what it would uncover But resisting an investigation has hazards too because that could give Democratic presidential rivals an opening to keep the issue alive and question what the White House might be hiding Former Vermont Gov Howard Dean in a debate Thursday night criticized Cheney for allegedly berating CIA operatives because be didn't like their intelligence reports "It seems to me that the vice president of the United States therefore influenced the very reports that the president then used to decide to go to war and to ask Congress for permission to go to war" Dean said Massachusetts Sen John Kerry who supports a commission said whether Cheney influenced CIA officials to shape the intelligence he wanted is "a very legitimate question" Bin Laden alive Karzai says that Iraq has few trained auditors or financial investigators Another senior official noted that all of the $186 billion that the US government has earmarked for Iraqi reconstruction would be subject to audit by US authorities It's unclear what authority if any the integrity commission would have to investigate foreign businesses and their employees who engage in corrupt practices nor is it clear whether the commission will survive beyond the transitional phase of the new government In a related matter Pachachi said the Governing Council's legal committee would look into allegations that Saddam Hussein's government bought the support of various foreign leaders by giving them oil credits that could be traded on the open market for immense profits in violation of the UN embargo The list of recipients published in a local newspaper includes officials in the office of Russian President Vladimir Pu tin a French businessman close to Jacques Chirac the Russian ambassador to Baghdad and British parliamentarian George Galloway an ardent supporter of the previous Iraqi regime Galloway and many of the others on the list deny receiving the credits "We have yet to consider this in detail but obviously this is a very serious matter that deserves our close attention" Pachachi said Violence A fullblown investigation of Iraq was based was erroneous The Senate Intelligence Committee chairman blamed "a world intelligence community failure" for the inability to find banned weapons so far GOP Sen Pat Roberts of Kansas whose committee will release its report on prewar intelligence gathering next month said in an Associated Press interview that he has concluded intelligence officers who had been cautious in assessing potential threats before the attacks of Sept 11 2001 became more likely to pass on speculative information afterward Kay has urged an independent look at the intelligence That idea has won support from Democrats in Congress and on the presidential campaign trail also supSen John McCain ports the idea But with Republicans in control of Congress and the White House it's unlikely an independent commission would be created without the president's blessing own party at a meeting in Philadelphia Iraq's alleged arsenal of banned destruction Vice President Dick Cheney has broached the possibility of a crimmission in conversations with members of Congress according to government sources Despite months of searching US inspectors have found no forbiddf It weapons in Iraq lush had cited the suspcted weapons as a rationale for the war Asked pointblank on Friday about a rwnmision Push declined to answer directly "I want the American poqIIIIP to knO1A that I too a 111 to know the facts" the president said lie reaffirmed the adniinistration's posit kin that the Iraq Survey Group which is searching for weapons of mass destruction should coniplete its work and then compare its results with the ad nun istra t ion's prewar inwiligonee IiiNh was asked about that intelligence Saturday by a senator from his Prewar information: Mounting 59 wwwlagoonparkcom COLLEGE CREDIT AVAILABLE |
