But it is unclear what they will do, besides launching investigations into how Mr Bush and his crew handled pre-war intelligence and post-war rebuilding contracts.
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James "Spider" Marks have seen the intersection of intelligence and war-fighting, and I'd sure like to know the perspective of retired Gen.
Two congressional Democrats, Richard Durbin, a senator from Illinois, and George Miller, a congressman from California, want the Senate Intelligence Committee, which is probing pre-war intelligence failures, to subpoena Mr Chalabi to give testimony.
The act also established the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA), which grew out of World War II era Office of Strategic Services and small post-war intelligence organizations.
They include Andrew Wilkie, a former Canberra intelligence official who resigned in protest over the government's handling of pre-Iraq war intelligence and who is standing for the Greens.
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Both the Conservatives and Lib Dems want an independent inquiry, headed by a judge, into the pre-war intelligence.
Last week, they forced a rare closed meeting of the Senate to look into foot dragging over investigating pre-war intelligence.
The latters' behavior constitutes the real and witting abuse of the Nation's official pre-war intelligence and the agencies that produced it.
Even more important is what comes out about pre-war intelligence in Iraq.
As the post-war situation deteriorated, and the pre-war intelligence Chalabi supplied about Saddam's weapons of mass destruction did not pan out, the relationship soured.
Wolf Blitzer of CNN asked Clinton about reports that she took the vote without ever reading the government's full classified report on pre-war intelligence.
Congressional committees are investigating the quality of pre-war intelligence.
He said he did not recognise the description of "sofa" government from Lord Butler, who used the term after he later headed an inquiry into the quality and use of pre-Iraq war intelligence on weapons of mass destruction.
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After all, just eight months ago, Mr Blair received a withering dressing-down over his style of government from Lord Butler, a former cabinet secretary, who reported on the uses and misuses of intelligence before the war with Iraq.
The Democratic National Committee put up a Webcast that said that the intelligence before the war was different at the White House than it was in Congress and Congress can't be blamed, therefore, for the decision to vote for war.
With political pressure building after Mr Kay's remarks, Mr Bush reluctantly agreed to an independent probe into pre-war intelligence, though the commission will cover Libya, North Korea and Iran as well as Iraq, and will not report back until 2005 well after the presidential election.
Kelly, who was outed as the "mole" in the weapons of mass destruction (WMD) row between the government and the BBC, was found dead near his Oxfordshire home on July 18 just days after giving evidence to a parliamentary inquiry into the intelligence case for war against Iraq.
And there is no way that we're going to win this war without intelligence.
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No intelligence source in a war zone is brought into a base of any kind without being checked and screened.
The Butler inquiry looked at intelligence failures before the war while the Hutton inquiry examined the circumstances leading to the death of former government adviser David Kelly.
Former CIA chief George Tenet said the Bush administration used him as a scapegoat over intelligence issues with the war in Iraq, and debate among top officials was absent when decisions were made to invade the country.
In addition, Dr. Leitner is a Professor with the National Center for Biodefense at George Mason University as well as a Senior Fellow and Professor with the Center for Advanced Defense Studies responsible for Terrorism, Intelligence, and Cyber War issues.
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Bill Nelson, D-Florida, who was among those briefed, told CNN there has been no evidence discovered since the start of the war in Iraq that suggests Speicher is still alive, but that he believes Speicher may be alive based on intelligence gathered before the war.
He holds advanced degrees from Georgetown University, the National Defense Intelligence College and the National War College.
We must always have in mind the crucial role of intelligence in support of the war fighter.
What would have happened if, during the Cold War, Soviet intelligence had been responsible for training Americans charged with countering communist aggression?
Pentagon officials in previous, open hearings on the recommendations have warned against changes that could hurt the ability to get war-fighting intelligence to the battlefield.
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Midgley, born in the working-class north of England in 1911, was in military intelligence during the second world war, trying to work out Germany's intentions.
The National Intelligence Estimates said the Iraq war was fuelling a global jihadist movement and it was increasing resentment toward the U.S. and the Muslim world.
The White House said opening up the investigation to an outside panel, with the possibility of public hearings, could compromise intelligence information and harm the war on terrorism.
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