The White House could soon be drawn into the fallout from a Pentagon report presented to the Senate Armed Services Committee on Friday, which concluded that pre-war intelligence assessments used by the Bush administration contained false claims of a ‘mature symbiotic relationship’ between Iraq and al Qaeda. Senator Carl Levin (D-Mich.), who chairs the committee, said he would ask current and former White House aides to testify about the intelligence assessments prepared by Douglas Feith, the former Under Secretary of Defense for Policy who served under former Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfowitz and former Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld. Those who will be called to testify include National Security Advisor Stephen Hadly and former Chief of Staff for Vice President Dick Cheney Lewis ‘Scooter’ Libby. The report of the Pentagon’s acting Inspector General, Thomas Gimble, concludes that Mr Feith developed ‘intelligence products’ in 2002 which drew a link between al Qaeda and Iraq that was ‘not fully supported by the available intelligence’ and ‘more in accord with the policy views of senior officials in the administration’. Senator Levin, who requested the report, said, ‘Senior administration officials used the twisted intelligence produced by the Feith office in […]