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White House Exaggerated Iraqi Threat, Senate Report Finds

President Bush and his top aides repeatedly exaggerated what they knew about the threat from Iraqi nuclear, biological and chemical weapons as the administration pressed its case for war against Iraq, the Senate intelligence committee said today in a long-awaited report.


HUNTING AL-QAEDA

Unilateral Strike Called a Model For U.S. Operations in Pakistan

In the predawn hours of Jan. 29, a CIA Predator aircraft flew in a slow arc above the Pakistani town of Mir Ali. The drone's operator, relying on information secretly passed to the CIA by local informants, clicked a computer mouse and sent the first of two Hellfire missiles hurtling toward a cluster...


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Pakistan Is Threatened, Intelligence Chief Says (Post, February 6, 2008; Page A03)

Who's on the Line? These Days, It Could Be Everyone (Post, August 12, 2007; Page D01)

Nominee Defends Ending Programs:  Kerr Testifies About Satellite Contracts (Post, August 2, 2007; Page A15)

Al-Qaeda's Gains Keep U.S. at Risk, Report Says:  Safe Haven in Pakistan Is Seen as Challenging Counterterrorism Efforts (Post, July 18, 2007; Page A01)

CIA Releases Files On Past Misdeeds:  Assassination Plots, Domestic Spying Cited (Post, June 27, 2007; Page A01)

CIA to Air Decades of Its Dirty Laundry:  Assassination Attempts Among Abuses Detailed (Post, June 22, 2007; Page A01)

CIA Cited for Not Disclosing Covert Action (Post, May 10, 2007; Page A13)

Intelligence Chief Decries Constraints:  Update of Surveillance Law Urged (Post, May 2, 2007; Page A07)

Intelligence Community to Reshape Personnel Practices (Post, April 12, 2007; Page A11)

Suspecting Leak, Chairman Suspends Panel Staffer:  Democratic Aide to House Intelligence Committee Was Flagged by GOP Member Based on 'Coincidence' (Post, October 21, 2006; Page A04)

Intelligence Plan Targets Training, Keeping Personnel (Post, October 19, 2006; Page A18)

Negroponte Highlights U.S. Successes:  Intelligence View That War Is Increasing Terror Is 'Fraction of Judgments,' He Says (Post, September 25, 2006; Page A04)

CIA Learned in '02 That Bin Laden Had No Iraq Ties, Report Says (Post, September 15, 2006; Page A14)

Report Details Errors Before War (Post, September 9, 2006; Page A12)

Senate: No Al-Qaeda, Saddam Ties:  Links Were Cited to Justify U.S. Invasion, Report Says (Post, September 9, 2006; Page A01)

CIA Director Picks a No. 3 and Shifts Roles:  Hayden Says the Change Will Let Him Focus on Agency's Mission (Post, July 12, 2006; Page A06)

Hoekstra Urges Bush to Impart Intelligence Details (Post, July 10, 2006; Page A07)

Lawmakers Push to Stay in the Loop (Post, July 10, 2006; Page A07)

Bush Is Pressed on Reporting Domestic Surveillance (Post, July 9, 2006; Page A06)

USA Today Takes Back Some of NSA Claims (Post, July 1, 2006; Page A02)

Government, Media to Pay Wen Ho Lee $1.6M:  News Organizations Pay To Keep Sources Secret (Post, June 3, 2006; Page A01)

Senate Panel Split Over Questioning Phone Company Executives (Post, May 27, 2006; Page A02)

Hayden Distinguishes Himself From Goss:  CIA Nominee's Testimony May Have Been for Agency as Much as for Lawmakers (Post, May 21, 2006; Page A08)

Hayden Urges CIA Critics to Refrain:  Nominee Defends U.S. Surveillance (Post, May 19, 2006; Page A01)

Nominee Has Ability To Bear Bad News:  Some Senators Unsure He Will Use It With Bush (Post, May 19, 2006; Page A06)

Ousted CIA No. 3 Is Target of Raids:  Foggo's Home and Langley Office Swept in Corruption Probe (Post, May 13, 2006; Page A01)

CIA Pick Open to Wiretap Oversight:  Hayden Tells Senators He Also Would Consider Retiring From Military (Post, May 11, 2006; Page A03)

Ex-CIA Official Defends Ties With Contractor (Post, May 11, 2006; Page A08)

No Power Play, Rumsfeld Says:  Pentagon Chief Defends General's Nomination to Be CIA Director (Post, May 10, 2006; Page A03)

CIA Official Quits; FBI Probes Role in Defense Contracts (Post, May 9, 2006; Page A03)

Hayden Is Pick for CIA; Ex-Official May Be No. 2 :  Official Who Quit Under Goss Would Be Hayden's No. 2 (Post, May 9, 2006; Page A01)

Experts See a Strategy Behind CIA Shuffle:  General May Help Intelligence Chief Rein In Rumsfeld and His Military Spy Plans (Post, May 9, 2006; Page A09)

Transcript:  Bush Nominates Michael V. Hayden to Head CIA (washingtonpost.com, May 8, 2006; 9:58 AM)

Likely Nominee for CIA Post Faces GOP Doubts:  Gen. Hayden Is 'Wrong Man,' Hoekstra Says (Post, May 8, 2006; Page A01)

Analysis:  The Fix-It Man Leaves, but The Agency's Cracks Remain (Post, May 6, 2006; Page A01)

Fired CIA Officer Denies Leaking Classified Data:  Official Says Agency Is Not Asserting She Told of Secret Prisons (Post, April 25, 2006; Page A01)

Negroponte Cites Intelligence 'Innovation' (Post, April 21, 2006; Page A07)

Intelligence Office Gives Progress Report (Post, April 14, 2006; Page A11)

Patriot Act Primer (washingtonpost.com, March 15, 2006; 2:51 PM)

U.S. Targets Zawahiri (Post, January 14, 2006; Page A09)

Intelligence Probe Takes Shape:  Senators Discuss Inquiry Into Administration Statements About Iraq (Post, November 10, 2005; Page A07)

FBI Papers Indicate Intelligence Violations:  Secret Surveillance Lacked Oversight (Post, October 24, 2005; Page A01)

List of Foiled Plots Puzzling to Some:  White House Document Mixes Half-Baked Plans With Serious Terrorist Threats (Post, October 23, 2005; Page A06)

A Year Later, Goss's CIA Is Still in Turmoil:  Congress to Ask Why Spy Unit Continues to Lose Personnel (Post, October 19, 2005; Page A01)

Reporter, Times Are Criticized for Missteps:  Media Analysts Question Decisions by Miller, Newspaper's Editors Regarding Leak (Post, October 17, 2005; Page A02)

CIA Spies Get a New Home Base:  Agency Will Set Up the National Clandestine Service (Post, October 14, 2005; Page A06)

Times Reporter Testifies Again in CIA Leak Probe (Post, October 13, 2005; Page A10)

Freed Writer Testifies:  N.Y. Times' Miller Tells Grand Jury About 2003 Talks With Cheney Aide Libby (Post, October 1, 2005; Page A04)

Reporter Judith Miller Released From Prison (washingtonpost.com, September 29, 2005; 8:31 PM)

U.S. Argues for Power To Detain Padilla:  Case of Man Held 3 Years Without Trial Focuses Attention on Administration's Anti-Terror Policies (Post, July 20, 2005; Page A09)

Depiction of Threat Outgrew Supporting Evidence (Post, August 10, 2003; Page A1)

CIA Had Fix on Hussein:  Intelligence Revealed 'Target of Opportunity' (Post, March 20, 2003; Page A1)

U.S. Reaps New Data On Weapons (Post, March 20, 2003; Page A1)

U.S. Decries Abuse but Defends Interrogations:  'Stress and Duress' Tactics Used on Terrorism Suspects Held in Secret Overseas Facilities (Post, December 26, 2002; Page A1)

U.S. Suspects Al Qaeda Got Nerve Agent From Iraqis:  Analysts: Chemical May Be VX, And Was Smuggled Via Turkey (Post, December 12, 2002; Page A1)

CIA Officer's Body Brought Home to Family (Post, December 3, 2001; Page A13)

CIA Reports Officer Killed in Prison Uprising:  Ex-Marine Was Interviewing Prisoners When Non-Afghan Taliban Fighters Began Revolt (Post, November 29, 2001; Page A27)

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