In the fall of 2002, Hoeffel voted for the use of military power in Iraq because he said he was “mislead” by the White House.

“I believed we needed to disarm Saddam Hussein of Weapons of Mass Destruction,” he said. “Congress was misled by the President. We need to look into the intelligence reports.”

According to Hoeffel, intelligence reports available to the White House in August 2002, were not available to Congress until the spring of 2003.
“The findings were filled with uncertainty,” he said, “but the White House presented it as fact.”

Local U.S. Rep. Joseph Hoeffel says Bush misled him (The Northeast Breeze).

David Kay, the man who led the CIA’s postwar effort to find weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, has called on the Bush administration to “come clean with the American people” and admit it was wrong about the existence of the weapons.

In an interview with the Guardian, Mr Kay said the administration’s reluctance to make that admission was delaying essential reforms of US intelligence agencies, and further undermining its credibility at home and abroad.

He welcomed the creation of a bipartisan commission to investigate prewar intelligence on Iraq, and said the wide-ranging US investigation was much more likely to get to the truth than the Butler inquiry in Britain. That, he noted, had “so many limitations it’s going to be almost impossible” to come to meaningful conclusions.

Read more at the Guardian Unlimited.