Senators (pushed by Dems) to set Iraq inquiry timetable [View All]

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http://www.cnn.com/2005/POLITICS/11/08/iraq.intel/

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- Six senators are meeting Tuesday to set out a new schedule for investigating prewar intelligence on Iraq.

The task force was appointed to end a standoff between Republicans and Democrats last week.

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"The president of the United States ... said that we've learned that Iraq has trained al Qaeda in chemical and biological weapons, using the same source" as then-Secretary of State Colin Powell in his February 2003 U.N. presentation, Levin said Tuesday.

"A year before statement, the Defense Intelligence Agency said that the source of that was bogus and was likely misleading us and making up stories."

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Levin will work out the new timetable with fellow Democratic Sens. Dianne Feinstein of California and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia, together with Sen. Pat Roberts, the Republican chairman of the Senate Intelligence Committee, and his party colleagues, Sens. Kit Bond of Missouri and Trent Lott of Mississippi.

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