June 16, 2004

CNN.com - CIA sends heavily redacted WMD report to Senate

Members of the Senate Intelligence Committee investigating prewar Iraq intelligence expressed displeasure Tuesday with CIA efforts to keep large parts of the committee's report secret.

Intelligence Committee Chairman Pat Roberts, R-Kansas, said the committee has received some of its report back from the CIA, which has been reviewing it to determine which parts can be made public.

...On Sunday, Roberts said the CIA appeared to be dragging out the process of declassifying the report.

In response, a U.S. official said Tuesday that Roberts' assertion is "simply not the case."

The official said that going through more than 400 pages in the report to make sure classified material is not included is "painstaking work -- you've got to get it right."

Sources say the CIA team has also found a number of "factual inaccuracies."