"ASSERTION: In his speech, Bush noted that "more than a hundred Democrats in the House and the Senate - who had access to the same intelligence - voted to support removing Saddam Hussein from power."
"CONTEXT: This isn't true.
"The Congress didn't have access to the President's Daily Brief, a top-secret compendium of intelligence on the most pressing national security issues that was sent to the president every morning by former CIA Director George Tenet.
"As for prewar intelligence on Iraq, senior administration officials had access to other information and sources that weren't available to lawmakers.
"Cheney and his aides visited the CIA and other intelligence agencies to view raw intelligence reports, received briefings and engaged in highly unusual give-and-take sessions with analysts."
And there's lots more here: "In challenging war's critics, administration tinkers with truth"
