Democrats: Probe Can't Be Rushed

Panel to Begin 'Phase Two' of Inquiry Into Prewar Data

By Walter Pincus
Washington Post Staff Writer
Saturday, November 5, 2005; Page A06

The Republican staff director of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence said yesterday that the next phase of the panel's probe of prewar intelligence on Iraq could continue for weeks, after key Democrats on the committee complained there is still much investigative work to be done.

On Tuesday, a bipartisan group of senators plans to meet and launch what the panel has labeled "Phase Two" of its investigation. That phase will focus in part on how the Bush administration handled prewar intelligence, including whether the information was misrepresented in statements to the public. The group of six senators is to meet over three days and report back on the intelligence committee's plan for this second phase. >>>cont

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