in july 2004, the united states senate select committee on intelligence issued a scathing report on prewar intelligence on iraq. inr was spared the poor performance review that most other intelligence agencies received, and the panel specifically endorsed the dissent that inr inserted into the national intelligence estimate of 2002. the bureau is being studied as a positive example, as congress debates how to best reform u.s. intelligence agencies in the wake of the 2003 invasion of iraq.