The CIA screwed up. That's the ho-hum summation of the Senate Intelligence Committee's 512-page report, released with fanfare after a 12-month inquiry.

The report uncorks a geyser of detail about the agency's failures but keeps the two most important questions of the day bottled up: Did the CIA's mistakes, especially about Iraqi weapons of mass destruction, stem from political pressures? And what can be done to improve the agency's handling of warnings and threats now?

As for the second question, how to repair the CIA after the nation's biggest intelligence failure since Pearl Harbor, both the Republican chairman Pat Roberts and ranking Democrat John Rockefeller cleared their throats forthrightly.