Reply #14: brief explanation of jest of Reports here:

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One report compared the CIA’s pre-war estimate of Iraq’s WMDs with what was actually uncovered by inspectors in post-Saddam Hussein Iraq. The other focused on how the intelligence community used intelligence provided by the Iraqi National Congress, a dissident group in opposition to Saddam Hussein.

Both reports contained blacked-out passages on information the Bush administration declined to declassify.

In a move that surprised some board members, Stephen Hadley, President Bush’s national security adviser, personally got involved negotiating the terms of the review. He told the board in a private meeting that he wanted the National Security Council staff to write the board’s bylaws, which dictate how they declassify a document.

Hadley’s spokesman did not return a phone and an e-mail message.