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Article: Bush setback as Congress pillories CIA over Iraq war.
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- Daily Mail (London)
- Article date:
- September 29, 2003
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Byline: WILLIAM LOWTHER
GEORGE Bush suffered a major setback yesterday when a key committee of the U.S. Congress delivered a scathing attack on his justification for invading Iraq.
The powerful House Intelligence Committee slammed the evidence the CIA used to justify war as 'outdated, circumstantial and fragmentary'.
Calls for the resignation of CIA director George Tenet are expected to mount as a result.
The vehement and unexpected nature of the report follows a four-month study of the classified material the White House used to make its case.
According to the committee and its staff of experts, the CIA failed to collect ...