Rockefeller: Cheney applied "constant" pressure to stall investigation on flawed Iraq intelligence

WASHINGTON - Vice President Dick Cheney applied “constant” pressure on the Republican former head of the Senate Intelligence Committee to stall an investigation into the Bush administration’s use of flawed intelligence on Iraq, the panel’s Democratic chairman charged Thursday.

“It was just constant,” Sen. Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia said of Cheney’s pressure on Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), who chaired the committee from 2003 until Democrats took control of Congress this month.

Roberts’ office did not immediately respond to a request for comment.

Rockefeller’s comments, in an interview with McClatchy newspapers, were among the most forceful he has made about the reason the committee failed to complete the effort under Roberts.

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