Senate Report of Pre-war Intelligence on Iraq | Wikipedia audio article
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Date: 08/02/2019

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00:01:36 1 Background
00:07:57 2 Committee membership at the time of the investigation
00:09:14 3 Chronology of the investigation
00:12:43 4 Phase I conclusions
00:13:19 4.1 General conclusions on intelligence relating to Iraq's WMD and ties to terrorism
00:15:06 4.2 Niger and the Iraqi nuclear program
00:17:29 4.3 Biological weapons, chemical weapons, and delivery systems
00:20:23 4.4 Colin Powell's speech to the UN
00:21:49 4.5 Pressure on analysts
00:23:13 4.6 The October 2002 white paper
00:24:25 4.7 Iraq's alleged links to al-Qaeda
00:27:42 5 The report's "additional views"
00:28:17 5.1 Senators Roberts, Hatch, and Bond
00:29:49 5.2 Senators Rockefeller, Levin, and Durbin
00:30:50 5.3 Senators Chambliss, Hatch, Lott, Hagel, and Bond
00:31:34 5.4 Other additional views
00:33:15 6 "Phase two" of the investigation
00:46:16 7 See also



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The Senate Report on Iraqi WMD Intelligence (formally, the "Report of the Select Committee on Intelligence on the U.S. Intelligence Community's Prewar Intelligence Assessments on Iraq") was the report by the United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence concerning the U.S. intelligence community's assessments of Iraq during the time leading up to the 2003 invasion of Iraq. The report, which was released on July 9, 2004, identified numerous failures in the intelligence-gathering and -analysis process. The report found that these failures led to the creation of inaccurate materials that misled both government policy makers and the American public.
The Committee's nine Republicans and eight Democrats agreed on the report's major conclusions and unanimously endorsed its findings. They disagreed, though, on the impact that statements on Iraq by senior members of the Bush administration had on the intelligence process.  The second phase of the investigation, addressing the way senior policymakers used the intelligence, was published on May 25, 2007.  Portions of the phase II report not released at that time include the review of public statements by U.S. government leaders prior to the war, and the assessment of the activities of Douglas Feith and the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans.