Doesn't the HASC (Congress vs. the Senate) advise the prez and others instead of the other way around? I just checked the HASC site and looked through some of their duties and sub comms. to make sure I (who never paid much attention in history class and now often have to look things up when confused) understood this conversation about who was at fault over the whole WMD controversy.
From what I can gather after looking at the site, and what I do know about what any kinda committee does, it does seem a bit like sour grapes for anyone from the committee to claim they were duped when it was their duty to get accurate info as participants in our gov't and advisors to a prez.
I also looked at the Snopes site and noted that besides the original quotes, Snopes cited that not all the quotes were taken within the original context of the statements, and many of those quoted, when quoted, were on the record as being opposed to a military answer to the problem.
MZ