HEY B*SH! . Declassify the Afghanistan NIE!

Bush Administration Keeps Secret Damaging NIE on Afghanistan
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/story?id=5867448&page=1

US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as "grim", but there are "no plans to declassify" any of it before the election, according to one US official familiar with the process.

According to people who have been briefed, the NIE will paint a "grim" picture of the situation in Afghanistan, seven years after the US invaded in an effort to dismantle the al Qaeda network and its Taliban protectors.


"We are now at a tipping point, with about half of the country now penetrated by a range of Sunni militant groups including the Taliban and al Queida," Jones said. Jones said there is growing concern that Dutch and Canadian forces in Afghanistan would "call it quits."

in the debate, when discussing his opinion that Afghanistan is the primary concern/central battleground over Iraq. This new NIE report is being hidden from the voting public. People should know this.

mess & the election. . This would be a BIG DEAL