Senate panel wants CIA report declassified

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apologies if already posted

http://www.contracostatimes.com/mld/cctimes/news/8877111.htm?1c

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WASHINGTON - The leaders of the Senate intelligence committee are pressing the Central Intelligence Agency to agree to a broad declassification and release of the panel's 400-page report that is highly critical of the agency's prewar performance on Iraq.

The agency and ultimately the White House have the power to decide how much of the report should be declassified, giving them great influence over a document that will focus on mistakes related to Iraq and its illicit weapons. The Senate could vote to release classified material even over White House objections, but such a step would be rare.

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Roberts, the Kansas Republican who is the committee chairman, said in a telephone interview Tuesday that he planned "a full-court press" to encourage the CIA to release the document in near-original form, and he said he had asked White House officials to exert "all possible cooperation" in that effort.

"I feel very strongly that the great majority of this report should be made public," Roberts said. "Our report is a good one; it's right; and the American people certainly deserve to see it."

What are the odds that this report will be declassified???

[myrna minx]

1. I wish I could read the whole article.

This sounds interesting.