IV 
109TH CONGRESS 
1ST SESSION 
H. RES. 635 
Creating a select committee to investigate the Administration’s intent to 
go to war before congressional authorization, manipulation of pre-war 
intelligence, encouraging and countenancing torture, retaliating against 
critics, and to make recommendations regarding grounds for possible 
impeachment. 
IN THE HOUSE OF REPRESENTATIVES 
DECEMBER 18, 2005 
Mr. CONYERS submitted the following resolution; which was referred to the 
Committee on Rules 
RESOLUTION 
Creating a select committee to investigate the Administra-
tion’s intent to go to war before congressional authoriza-
tion, manipulation of pre-war intelligence, encouraging 
and countenancing torture, retaliating against critics, 
and to make recommendations regarding grounds for 
possible impeachment. 
Resolved, That there is hereby established in the 
House of Representatives a select committee to be known 
as the Select Committee on Administration Predetermina-
tion to Go to War and Manipulation of Intelligence (in 
this resolution referred to as the ‘‘Select Committee’’).
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PURPOSES AND FUNCTIONS 
SEC. 2. (a) The Select Committee is authorized and 
directed to investigate all relevant government agencies ac-
tions and decisions relating to the Administration’s intent 
to go to war before congressional authorization, manipula-
tion of pre-war intelligence, encouraging and counte-
nancing torture, and retaliating against critics, including: 
(1) actions by the White House, National Secu-
rity Council, Department of State, Department of 
Defense, and Central Intelligence Agency related to 
United Nations and Iraq Survey Group inspections 
of Iraq; 
(2) knowledge of Iraq’s ability regarding and 
intentions toward, or lack of ability regarding or in-
tentions toward, nuclear weapons capability; 
(3) knowledge regarding Iraq’s possession of or 
attempted possession of, or regarding the lack of 
possession of or attempted possession of, chemical or 
biological weapons; 
(4) knowledge of Iraq’s possession of aluminum 
tubes for conventional rocket programs or for nu-
clear weapons development; 
(5) knowledge regarding Iraq’s intent, or lack 
of intent, toward acquiring yellowcake uranium from 
Niger;
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(6) knowledge of any involvement, or lack of in-
volvement, by Iraq in the September 11, 2001, at-
tacks against the United States; 
(7) knowledge of any connections or ties, or of 
any lack of connections or ties, between Iraq and al 
Qaeda; 
(8) knowledge of any meeting, or lack of any 
meeting, between Iraqi intelligence officials and Mo-
hammed Atta in Prague, Czechoslovakia; 
(9) preparations for detention, interrogation 
and treatment of detainees, or lack thereof, made in 
the planning stages of the Iraq conflict prior to 
March 19, 2003; 
(10) knowledge of abuses and mistreatment of 
detainees during the Iraq conflict after March 19, 
2003; 
(11) the investigation of abuses and mistreat-
ment, or lack thereof, the results of these investiga-
tions, any sanctions or punishment of offenders, and 
any efforts to keep these reports either from super-
visors, officials or the public; 
(12) an examination of all prison facilities, in-
cluding the High Value Detainee facility at Baghdad 
airport and secret prisons or ‘‘black sites,’’ for de-
taining individuals outside the United States;