And the commissions cited by officials, though concluding that the administration did not pressure intelligence analysts to change their conclusions, were not authorized to determine whether the administration exaggerated or distorted those conclusions.
And Judge Laurence H. Silberman, chairman of Bush's commission on weapons of mass destruction, said in releasing his report on March 31, 2005: "Our executive order did not direct us to deal with the use of intelligence by policymakers, and all of us were agreed that that was not part of our inquiry."



>>> they've already concluded that there is no evidence that Bush or any one in his inner circle forced the CIA to come up with a false intelligence report or tampered with the report.
>
>>Where's the proof of this?
>
>The report can be found here:
>
>http://www.wmd.gov/about.html
>
>If you download the PDF the quote is on pages 50-51 of the report, 66-67 of the PDF. Check it out so you can't say I am quoting out of context or something.
>
>You can argue that the decision was perhaps a mistake, but to accuse him of misleading or flat out deceiving the people about Iraq I think is a stretch.