[Mr. Mojo]

Lying Foggy Bottom Arabist SOBs.

[jrooney]

The wheels are coming off this intentional attempt to derail the GW administration by liberals with an agenda. This group is about to be exposed. May they pay for their partisanship by putting us all and Israel in danger.

[Perdogg]

Several current and former government officials who worked with Mr. Fingar, Mr. Van Diepen and Mr. Brill said the three men consistently obstructed and opposed efforts to impose sanctions on rogue nations by John R. Bolton when he was undersecretary of state for arms control during Mr. Bush's first term.

[elpadre]

I know US intel systems have been revamped under this Administration. However it is evident there is a need to revamp the revamped system and remove anyone who cannot analyze data without applying their own bias. Anyone with the Clinton odor should be removed for sure.

Didn’t the overall intel group review and critique the report before its release? Israel, Europeans, et al have grave questions about it, so it’s been said.

It only takes one or two to discredit something like this, a la “Jamie what’s-her-name” on the 9/11 commission placed their entire report in question.

[LanaTurnerOverdrive]

The NIE is almost never leaked or made public. Can anyone tell me how this one got out? I must have missed it because no one seems to be asking that question.

[Congressman Billybob]

Now, wait one cotton-pickin' moment, as Tennessee Ernie Ford used to say. People who are "former" employees of any agency, corporation, university, or whatever, are "former" for some reason. They quit, they got fired, they got too old to do the job.

So why are ANY "former" employees of the State Department, or whatever, involved in the "current" assessment of foreign intelligence? Might as well look in Sandy Berger's shorts and socks to find correct answers.

John / Billybob

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

From Powerline:

December 8, 2007
Defending the NIE Report

**********************EXCERPT*********************

After years of trying to expose the CIA's war on the Bush administration, we may be making a little progress. Questions about the latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran have become sufficiently widespread that the intelligence community has found it necessary to respond:

The federal agency responsible for national intelligence estimates yesterday defended its report on Iran against charges that it was crafted primarily by former State Department officials who infused their personal politics into the report to undercut the Bush administration.

***********************snip*********************

Apart from the fact that it doesn't even touch on the merits, this defense is unpersuasive. Every NIE is, by definition, supposed to represent a "consensus" of all of the intelligence agencies. Yet those who actually write the report obviously exercise great influence, and when the "consensus" of seventeen agencies does a 180-degree U-turn, it is reasonable to shine a spotlight on the authors. Moreover, as we have pointed out repeatedly, the liberal, anti-Bush slant of the intelligence community is not a function of a few bad apples; rather, it broadly pervades that community as a whole. So to say that many intelligence officials had a hand in the report is by no means reassuring.

Nor is the fact that the report was reviewed by the National Intelligence Board, chaired by Michael McConnell, a meaningful defense.

[G8 Diplomat]

That's right, the all-knowing NIE is the only source of information about Iran's nuclear program. Nevermind the 3000 uranium-enriching centrifuges spinning right now and their blueprints for casting it into atomic bombs /s

This isn't that complicated. Here's what we do about it:

+

Clear?

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks Ernest. I liked this one better:

Israel Takes On NIE
(Will present to JSC Mullen why they believe Iran working on Nukes)
Strata Sphere | Friday, December 7th, 2007 at 11:22 am. | AJStrata
Posted on 12/07/2007 3:28:36 PM EST by Ernest_at_the_Beach
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