IRAQ -- ROBERTS STONEWALLS ON RELEASE OF PREWAR INTELLIGENCE REPORT: Sen. Pat Roberts (R-KS), chairman of the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence, is continuing to stall the completion of a report examining the Bush administration's use of prewar intelligence. The investigation "remains in limbo after almost three years" and has "virtually no chance" of being finished by the midterm elections in November. Despite saying nine months ago that "his report was near completion and there was no need for the fuss," the committee has only completed two of the report's five sections. The other three sections, which will probe the administration's handling of prewar intelligence and whether it manipulated evidence in its case for war against Iraq, have yet to be drafted. This latest stalling tactic is just another notch in Roberts' long record of hindering progress on the report. Last November, he dismissed the necessity of investigating the administration's use of prewar intelligence, stating, "I don't know the relevancy of that." Later that month, three committee members wrote a letter to Senate leaders noting that Roberts was not conducting a thorough investigation, including his refusal to pursue "additional interviews and documents." Roberts' continued stonewalling of the report's release has earned him the an appropriate nickname: chairman of the Senate Cover-up Committee.