From Reuter's on Monday, "White House reviews Iraq funding after charge of mispending":

The White House denied any wrongdoing on Monday in the use of funding to prepare for the war in Iraq after a book alleged the money was diverted from operations in Afghanistan without Congress' knowledge.

White House spokesman Scott McClellan insisted that Congress was "fully informed" of how the money was spent.

He said emergency spending legislation after the Sept. 11, 2001, attacks gave the administration "broad discretion" on how the funding could be used.

In "Plan of Attack," author Bob Woodward says President George W. Bush began preparing for war with Iraq within weeks of the Sept. 11 attack.

To further guard the secrecy, Bush funded the war preparations with $700 million that was earmarked for Afghanistan and old appropriations.

"Congress was totally in the dark on this," Woodward told CBS "60 Minutes" of the shift in funding in July 2002.

McClellan said the White House Office of Management and Budget and the Pentagon were "reviewing this," but added, "At this time we are confident that Congress was kept fully informed of all expenditures."

"We're gathering all those facts," McClellan said. "In emergency spending, there is broad discretion in how those funds could be used in the war on terrorism. Iraq is a part of the war on terrorism."

Well, it is now, anyway.