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[[File:Bob Graham presiding over the Senate.jpg|thumb|Graham presiding over the U.S. Senate during the vote on [[Ronald Reagan|Reagan]] [[Supreme Court of the United States|Supreme Court]] appointee [[Robert Bork]]|240px]]
Graham served 10 years on the [[United States Senate Select Committee on Intelligence]], which he chaired during and after [[9/11]] and the run-up to the [[Iraq war]]. He led the [[Joint Inquiry into Intelligence Community Activities before and after the Terrorist Attacks of September 11, 2001|joint congressional investigation into 9/11]]. As chair of the Intelligence Committee, Graham opposed the War in Iraq and was one of the 23 senators to vote against President George W. Bush's request for authorization of the use of military force. After meeting with military leaders in February 2002 and requesting and reviewing a [[National Intelligence Estimate]], he said he "felt we were being manipulated and that the result was going to distract us from where our real enemies were". He continued to oppose the Iraq War, saying in 2008: "I'm afraid I never wavered from my belief that this was a distraction that was going to come to a bad end in Iraq and an even worse end in Afghanistan".<ref>{{cite web |url=https://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/graham-i-never-wavered-i_n_91844.html |title=Graham: I Never Wavered In My Belief That The War Was Wrong |last=Stein |first=Sam |work=[[HuffPost|The Huffington Post]] |date=March 28, 2008 |access-date=November 24, 2010 |archive-date=July 26, 2008 |archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20080726012204/http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/03/17/graham-i-never-wavered-i_n_91844.html |url-status=live }}</ref>
In 2004, Graham published ''Intelligence Matters: The CIA, the FBI, Saudi Arabia and the Failure of America's War on Terror''.<ref name="NYT Obit" />
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