Senate Minority Leader Harry Reid demanded a full accounting of whether Bolton exaggerated assessments of several countries' weapons programs, a key issue in the long-stalled nomination.
``All over the news the last few days has been concerns about weapons of mass destruction by virtue of the memo that was discovered,'' the Nevada Democrat said, referring to the so-called ``Downing Street memo.''
The July 2002 memo, prepared for British Prime Minister Tony Blair, said President Bush had already decided to invade Iraq and intelligence was being made to fit that policy.
``Concerns about this administration hyping intelligence and Great Britain hyping intelligence cannot be dismissed lightly,'' Reid said, adding that it ``is no small matter for us to learn whether Mr. Bolton was a party to other efforts to hype intelligence.''
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