Senate Intelligence Committee, Republican Pat Roberts and Democrat Jay Rockefeller were on Meet the Press today.
RUSSERT: When will we see phase two of your investigation about the shaping or exaggeration of intelligence by policy-makers?
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Roberts:... And to go back in and to keep going over this over and over again, I'm more than happy to finish this, and I want to finish it, but we have other things that we need to do.
An important issue like this is now being swept under the rug.
MR. RUSSERT: The United States went to war...
That's right, we went to war because of information that the administration pressured to hear, and Roberts thinks we have better things to do, and is not happy to answer Tim's questions about it.
ROCKEFELLER: Pat and I have agreed to do it. We've shaken hands on it, and we agreed to do it after the elections so it wouldn't be any sort of sense of a political attack... If policy-makers are going to misuse or shape or hype or change or try to pressure that intelligence into being something different, they're the ones who decide, the policy-makers, whether we'll go to war or not, not the intelligence community. This is at the core of what we have to be prepared for, to do correctly for the next 30 or 40 years during the war on terrorism.
