WASHINGTON, March 29 (Xinhuanet) -- A presidential commission has criticized the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) and other agencies for intelligence failures over the Iraq's weapons of mass destruction, The New York Times said Tuesday.

    In its final report, the panel also proposes broad changes in the sharing of information among intelligence agencies.

    The report particularly singles out the CIA under its former director, George J. Tenet, but also includes what one senior official called "a hearty condemnation" of the Defense Intelligence Agency and the National Security Agency, the Times said.

    President George W. Bush is expected to receive the report officially on Thursday.

    Much of the discussion on Iraq went over ground already covered by the Senate Intelligence Committee and by the two reports of the Iraq Survey Group set up by the government to search for prohibited weapons after the invasion on Iraq. The search revealed virtually nothing, the Times said.

    One defense official who had been briefed on an early draft of the report said one of its conclusions was that "human intelligence left a lot to be desired" in the global war against terror, the Times report said. Enditem