What is NIE

I'm sure it's something I recognize - please help!

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a great deal of attention and used to direct US's foreign policy.

These days it is a combined National Intelligence report which BushCo stuffs under the couch cushions.

These days it's full of manipulated "intellgence" that makes it look like going to war is the right thing to do; then after the neocons go to war and its turns out the NIE was all wet, they blame the CIA.

That's what it's used for now.

They only released three pages and the pages are full of awful stuff such as









If this is what they released, the unreleased parts must be really really bad.

They wouldn't want to release that, would they?

I think think somebody should do a Mike Gravel and read the whole thing into the Congressional Record.

they wanted a shrubbry or something./..

We are now no longer the Knights who say Ni.
We are now the Knights who say..."Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-Ekki-PTANG. Zoom-Boing. Z'nourrwringmm. B-)

BTW, What... *is* the air-speed velocity of an unladen swallow?

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There was a story in Harper's a few months ago that said this report has been overdue
since the summer of 2004.

It's not just that it's a damaging report -- it's a bad report card that's spent most of the
past 24 or so months balled up and hidden away, under the dirty clothes hamper in the basement.

http://www.harpers.org/sb-sources-negroponte-nei-cia-1153433546.html

I was confused about this myself until yesterday. A National Intelligence Estimate can be prepared about any national security issue. See http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Intelligence_Estimate or google http://www.google.com/search?hl=en&lr=&ie=ISO-8859-1&q=%22national+intelligence+estimate%22+site%3Agwu.edu .

From 1983 to 2003, The State Department published an assessment of the extent of terrorism called "Patterns of Global Terrorism". This report came out every April, like clockwork. Two economists found that Colin Powell's State Department had clumsily fudged the April 2004 report (see links at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2231628&mesg_id=2231699 ). The report had to be re-released in June 2004, and that was the last one of the series.

The Wikipedia article on PGT (at.http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patterns_of_Global_Terrorism ) is the best wiki I've ever on any topic. See also my tentative filling-in of the gaps in the PGT series at http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=364&topic_id=2230807&mesg_id=2233164 .

Congress many times on terrorism issues. For a recent post about the NIE on his blog, go to http://noquarter.typepad.com/my_weblog/2006/09/the_facts_behin.html . You need only supply a name and an (unverified) email address to post a question immediately.