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On Feb. 12, 2004, the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence unanimously agreed to expand its inquiry into prewar intelligence with regard to Iraq. Among the additional areas the Committee agreed to investigate was ¿prewar intelligence assessments about postwar Iraq.¿ This is the Committee¿s report on that aspect of its inquiry. This report describes the Committee¿s methodology for reviewing prewar assessments about postwar Iraq, provides brief background on the production of two principal prewar assessments published in January 2003, summarizes other intelligence assessments from 2002-2003, & provides the Committee¿s conclusions about the Intelligence Community¿s prewar assessments about postwar Iraq. Illustrations.