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The Washington Post reports:

Leaders of the House intelligence committee have criticized the U.S. intelligence community for using largely outdated, "circumstantial" and "fragmentary" information with "too many uncertainties" to conclude that Iraq had weapons of mass destruction and ties to al Qaeda.

This is bi-partisan criticism of the intelligence community. There is also some implicit criticism of the administration for playing up the level and quality of the intelligence.

Just the latest in a series of misfortunes for the Bush administration. In the past week to two weeks:

The CIA requested a Justice Department investigation into the White House for exposing the identity of an operative, in connection with the Niger Yellowcake story.

Sec. Rumsfeld and Dep. Sec. Wolfowitz got grilled for the $87 billion request by members of Congress.

Vice Pres. Cheney's deferred compensation and stock options from Halliburton, the company that received billion dollar no-bid contracts for Iraq reconstruction, qualify as continuing financial interests according to a Congressional Research Service report, contrary to Cheney's earlier claims on national television.

Pres. Bush and Sec. Powell made their cases to the UN and allies for internationalizing the financing of the Iraqi operation and the composition of the troops on the ground. They've made little headway.

The question is whether this will pick up the momentum required to get members of Congress to call for further investigations and demand the resignation of key administration officials.