Spooks refuse to toe Cheney's line on Iran

Source: Asia Times


By Gareth Porter

WASHINGTON - The US National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear program. The aim is to make the document more supportive of Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts provided by participants in the NIE process to two former Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) officers.

But this pressure on intelligence analysts, obviously instigated by Cheney himself, has not produced a draft estimate without those
dissenting views, these sources say. The White House has now apparently decided to release the "unsatisfactory" draft NIE, but without making its key findings public.

A NIE coordinates the judgments of the US's 16 intelligence agencies on a specific country or issue.

A former CIA intelligence officer who has asked not to be identified told Inter Press Service (IPS) that an official involved in the NIE process says the Iran estimate was ready to be published a year ago but has been delayed because the director of national intelligence wanted a draft reflecting a consensus on key conclusions - particularly on Iran's nuclear program.

There is a split in the intelligence community on how much of a threat the Iranian nuclear program poses, according to the intelligence official's account. Some analysts who are less independent are willing to give the benefit of the doubt to the alarmist view coming from Cheney's office, but others have rejected that view....>



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thank you, spooks. Do NOT back down.

This sucks big donkey dick.

The White House has now apparently decided to release the "unsatisfactory" draft NIE, but without making its key findings public.

This also backs up the articles of impeachment against cheney. I hope this story gets lots of play in the American press.

congress person and the judiciary members and repeat exactly what is said here about the NIE estimate and pressure by Cheney to change it, another good reason to impeach Cheney

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Seems like letters to the editor are also in order. :hi:

The only place you may see this news is on Countdown, most likely. The MSM may put it on page 45 column 356.

And Hagee wants it bombed in the name of Jesus.

What will these assholes say when Israel is counternuked?

and claim the Jews had it coming.

They got away with their lies once, maybe twice. ?

The reports will still be written as though they had.

After all, didn't the Wee Cowboy say

"Fooled me once, ummmhhh, errrr, snort, ..... won't git fooled agin!!"

'Dept of ...'

but an Orwellian "Minipax" would be a good caption there too. :)

And far more accurate.

I'd say you got the lettering perfect. I don't even know how you did it. That's one of the photoshop things I can't figure out.

Similarly, they want to attack Iran because they are sure that there are no nukes there. If they believed that Iran had nukes, they would leave them alone. The bully only goes after the weakest, or most cowardly, target.

This is something that North Korea understands, which is why they rushed to set off a nuclear device (or made it look like they set off a nuclear device).

At any rate, our Democrats in Congress seem to have not learned such a lesson.

..are doing to stop this madness.

Finally, someone in government who can stop this neocon train wreck.

That's probably why we haven't gone to war with Iran, as of today. They
don't have what they need yet and Junior's approvals are in the toilet.

I'm astounded frankly that half of the CIA officials are not giving
Darth Pasty his war on a silver platter. Bush worked tirelessly to
turn the CIA into their own little playground of lemmings.

Also--what does this say if the CIA is trying to stop these bastards,
but we still have Democrats in the House and Senate who are kow towing
to this president and voting for the Kyl/Lieberman bullshit? Everyone
knows that amendment, for which many Dems voted--is a precursor to war
with Iran and makes it oh-so easy for Bush to continue on his warpath.

So, in the end--this nation will be saved by the CIA?

It's good news, and I'm glad to hear it, but what in the hell happened
to our party?

He certainly has some big brass ones, I'll tell you that. :puke:

The evidence must be REALLY scant to none....

The guy wrote "Perils of Dominance" which chronicles the mistakes made by the MIC-Complex leadership in a changing world.

From the article:



BTW: A great photograph outside the House of War.

http://www.stopaipac.org/boltontape.htm

Bolton hoped Iran would kick out inspectors or some such thing, thereby giving the US a reason for a "response".