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| Sun, 02-01-2004 - 1:10pm |
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional and CIA probes into prewar intelligence on Iraq's weapons and links to terrorism have found no evidence that CIA analysts were influenced in their assessments by White House political pressure, The Washington Post reported on Saturday.
"There was pressure and a lot of debate and people should have a lot of debate," Richard Kerr, a former deputy CIA director who is leading the CIA's review of its prewar Iraq assessments, told the newspaper.
"But the bottom line is, over a period of several years, (the analysts' judgments) were very consistent. They didn't change their views," the Post quoted Kerr as saying.
His findings are similar to those of two investigations being conducted separately by the intelligence committees of the U.S. House of Representatives and the U.S. Senate, the newspaper said.
Edited 2/1/2004 1:13:10 PM ET by wrhen
