In case you missed it, the Dec. 7 Wall Street Journal carried a piece by Jay Solomon laying out the preliminary goals for the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence's inquiry into pre-war Iraq intelligence.

"The current study covers five areas," wrote Solomon:

One looks at the role of Iraqi exiles, such as politician Ahmad Chalabi, in developing intelligence and whether they purposely skewed information to promote a war. Another area of the probe involves a look at the Pentagon's Office of Special Plans, which provided its own assessment on Iraq's links to Al Qaeda, to determine whether its members operated outside of legal channels in gathering intelligence on Iraq ... But perhaps the most politically charged area will be the one looking at prewar warnings of postwar turmoil.