Mr. Bayh's political allies say he now concedes his vote on the war was a mistake, the product of personal assurances from George J. Tenet, the central intelligence director, to Mr. Bayh, a member of the Intelligence and Armed Services Committees, that Iraq possessed unconventional weapons.
The commission recommended that the job title be changed from director of central intelligence to C.I.A. director, with responsibility only for the work of the C.I.A., an agency that commission members have described as dysfunctional.
The White House has not said whether the intelligence director will provide the daily intelligence briefing to Mr. Bush, a responsibility that now falls to Porter J. Goss, whose job title changes under the bill from director of central intelligence to C.I.A. director, effectively demoting him to deputy to the national intelligence director.
Senator John W. Warner, Republican of Virginia and the leading supporter of the resolution in the Senate, placed into the record a statement from the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, stating that the agency's assessment and the president's position were not inconsistent.
A letter to Congress from the director of central intelligence has brought into public view divisions within the administration over what intelligence shows about Iraq's intentions and its willingness to ally itself with Al Qaeda.
Six other agency employees, including a senior official and four supervisors, also received administrative punishments from the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, for their roles in approving the target, which officials have said was intended to be a Yugoslav military supply headquarters, the agency official said.
Only last month, several senior officials of the Central Intelligence Agency visited Mr. Nosenko to present him with an American flag and a letter from Michael V. Hayden, the director of central intelligence, thanking him for his service and, by implication, offering a final apology for the way he was treated after he defected to the United States in the winter of 1964.
She had support from the director of central intelligence, William J. Casey, and Defense Secretary Caspar W. Weinberger.
He said the tribunal would seek additional testimony from the director of central intelligence, George J. Tenet, and the C.I.A. officer in Lima at the time, Robert Gorelick.
Mr. Scott said he was disappointed that aside from the director of central intelligence, George Tenet, there have been no high-level resignations, and that aside from the apology offered by the former counterterrorism official Richard A. Clarke, which was dismissed by Republican critics as grandstanding, there has been no admission of the government's failure to guard against terror adequately.
