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Sen. Pat Roberts walks difficult path as he leads Iraq war inquiry.

The Wichita Eagle (Wichita, KS)

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Byline: Alan Bjerga

WASHINGTON _ Most of the staff had gone home and the lights were going out on Capitol Hill when Sen. Pat Roberts emerged after a four-hour closed meeting with a decision that could change the meaning of a war.

After months of resistance, the Select Senate Committee on Intelligence led by Roberts had forged a compromise: It was expanding its investigation of intelligence regarding Iraqi weapons of mass destruction.

No longer would the committee look only at the quality of information gathered before the Iraq war. It now would ask how elected officials used that information in building the case for war.

That could ...

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