She was flapping her gums not too long ago, something about the NIE report should be released before the November elections.
September 27, 2006
The Honorable John Negroponte
Director of National Intelligence
New Executive Office Building
725 Seventeenth Street, N.W.
Washington, DC 20511Dear Director Negroponte:
I received your letter of September 26, in which you confirmed that the National Intelligence Council (NIC) is writing a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq. Though you promised that the NIE would be completed “in a timely manner,” senior White House officials have indicated publicly that the report may not be completed until January 2007.
This timetable is unacceptable. Sectarian violence, which has reached record levels and continues to grow, is putting our troops - not to mention millions of Iraqis - at grave risk. Furthermore, the proven ineffectiveness of U.S.-trained Iraqi security forces, an absence of effective infrastructure reconstruction, and political crises that threaten the fragile new polity have made it clear that we need a new strategy in Iraq.
NIEs have been produced in as little as several weeks, as in the case of the 2002 report on Iraqi WMD. While I understand the desire to be thorough, events in Iraq make it urgent that the Intelligence Community produce this NIE immediately. If your intention is to delay this report until after the November elections, I do not think that is appropriate given that U.S. troops are at risk at this moment.
U.S. policymakers need the Intelligence Community’s insights to determine how to defend our troops and our interests in Iraq. I urge you to expedite completion of the NIE and to release it in both classified and publicly releasable unclassified forms.
Sincerely,
Jane Harman
Ranking Member
So the Democrats want the NIE to be done "faster" than originally planned because they want to selectively leak parts of it to the press to use to their advantage right before the elections? And then they have the nerve to say the other side is the one being partisan? I guess they saw that their "selective" leaking of the last NIE didn't work out too well for them when the president declassified the summary that showed a much more balanced picture so they want to throw more mud. The thing is -- they know that the new NIE probably won't be done by then and they can point to this "political ploy" to say that Bush is "hiding something" and thus try and sway more votes in November. I'd love for Negroponte to fast track this and come out with yet another fairly balanced NIE and shove it down the Dems faces (again).
Great post, BKF....thanks for posting that letter.
I do remember her saying that there is a "second report" that they (Bush) are totally hiding..and really throwing a hissy fit.
She pretty much has gone loopy since she faced a semi-tough challenge in the primaries...I would LOVE to see ole leatherface defeated.
Dear Jane Harmon,
You are SCUM and all of your fellow leaky 'Rats in Congress are SCUM. Let's hope you all get the thorough thrashing at the polls that such anti-American treasonous weasels deserve.
Sincerely,
John Q. Public