WASHINGTON — A blistering Senate report due out Friday is expected to lay most of the blame for the weapons of mass destruction debacle in Iraq on the CIA and largely spare the White House, according to lawmakers who have publicly discussed some of the analysis.

The report by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence says the CIA botched the pre-war intelligence. But it does not accuse the Bush administration of pressuring the agency to back White House claims that Iraq had banned weapons, as some war critics contend.

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