New U.S. Spy Report On Iran Held Up By Fierce Resistance to Cheney's Hard Line

New U.S. Spy Report On Iran Held Up By Fierce Resistance to Cheney's Hard Line


Intelligence Analysts' Refusal to Go Along With Vice President's Drumbeat for War Against Iran Has Delayed Release of New National Intelligence Estimate For More Than a Year -- Rice and Gates Also Reportedly Balking

SPECIAL REPORT
By Gareth Porter
Inter-Press Service

A long-awaited U.S. 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 views toward Iran, according to accounts provided by participants in the NIE process to two former Central Intelligence Agency officers.

But this pressure on intelligence analysts, apparently instigated by Cheney himself, has not produced a draft estimate without those dissenting views, these sources say, indicating a fierce refusal by the dissenting analysts to buckle to the vice president.

Combined with public statements in recent weeks by Secretary of State Condoleeza Rice and Defense Secretary Robert Gates that also run counter to Cheney's hard line, The White House has now apparently decided to release the "unsatisfactory" draft NIE, but without making its key findings public.


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http://www.skeeterbitesreport.com/2007/11/new-us-spy-report-on-iran-held-up-by.html

America can't handle the truth...

The PNAC wants to go right on creating their own "Reality" like they did before the "Slam Dunk" in Iraq.