In what is seen as a blow to the Bush administration, the Senate Intelligence Committee said Thursday that it planned to investigate whether White House officials exaggerated the Iraq threat or pressured analysts to tailor their assessments of Baghdad’s weapons programs to bolster the case for war. This according to a report in the Los Angeles Times. The White House had sought the inquiry to be confined to the performance of the CIA and other intelligence agencies. The committee will also examine the role played by the Pentagon’s secretive Office of Special Plans and the Iraqi National Congress.