The role played by prewar intelligence on postwar Iraq has not yet been the subject of a comprehensive independent review.

The findings are part of a continuing inquiry by the committee into prewar intelligence about Iraq.

The failure to find such weapons in Iraq has prompted a series of investigations into prewar intelligence.

But doubts about the accuracy of the prewar intelligence have spread in Congress.

Some of his government's prewar intelligence claims about Iraq have been exposed as unsubstantiated.

Federal charges against a vice-presidential aide in a case related to prewar intelligence.

And that the "manipulation" of prewar intelligence might be more accurately called lying.

Now they appear to be allies in the administration's efforts to defend the prewar intelligence.

It was critical of how the administration, including the vice president's office, had portrayed prewar intelligence about Iraq's weapons programs.

Recently, he has been getting much of the public blame for things that have gone wrong in Iraq, from prewar intelligence to postwar administration.