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6. HRC's excuse for her IWR vote was that she claimed not to read the CIA Iraq WMD when given access.
Thu May 21, 2015, 05:14 PM
May 2015

What does that say about her willingness to nonetheless get up in the Senate and advocate for passage of the IWR?

WASHINGTON (CNN) -- A new biography of Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton has once again raised the issue of whether members of Congress read a key intelligence report before the 2002 vote to authorize war in Iraq.

Clinton did not read the 90-page, classified National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, according to "Her Way: The Hopes and Ambitions of Hillary Rodham Clinton."

For members of Congress to read the report, they had to go to a secure location on Capitol Hill. The Washington Post reported in 2004 that no more than six senators and a handful of House members were logged as reading the document.

The Clinton biography, written by New York Times reporters Jeff Gerth and Don Van Natta Jr., summarizes the intelligence estimate, which combined reports of U.S. intelligence agencies about Iraq. http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/05/28/clinton.iraq/index.html

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