Non-Partisan Congressional Research Service Reports: Congress Did NOT See Same Intelligence as Bush Administration Before War

Alfred Cumming, Specialist in Intelligence and National Security, Foreign Affairs, Defense and Trade Division of the non-Partisan Congressional Research Service and his staff completed a formal report for Congress showing once and for all that Congress definitely did NOT have the same intelligence as the Bush Administration when it was asked to give Bush authorization to use force in Iraq through the War Powers Act and still does not have access to the same intelligence. Congress members have been asking for dozens of the President's Daily Briefs (PDBs) which would give them more of the information that the President had in the lead up to the war. The President and his administration have continued to refuse to give Congress members this information, and yet the administration and the President’s supporters in the press continue to claim that Congress had the same intel as they did. Now we have a formal report that this is a lie. Read it and weep…for our country.