Science > Prophecies-Of-Nostradamus > Selective Intelligence - The National Intelligence Estimate doesn’t say what Bush says it does. How will he handle upcoming secret reports on Iran and Iraq?
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Selective Intelligence - The National Intelligence Estimate doesn’t say what Bush says it does. How will he handle upcoming secret reports on Iran and Iraq? |
http://msnbc.msn.com/id/15035936/site/newsweek/
By Michael Isikoff and Mark Hosenball
Updated: 2 hours, 22 minutes ago
Sept. 27, 2006 - The White House’s release of a dire
National Intelligence Estimate on global terrorism has
illustrated once again how easy it is to publicly
misrepresent intelligence-community findings—especially
when almost all of the key documents remained shrouded
in secrecy.
Only two days ago, while attempting to knock down stories
by The New York Times and other publications about the NIE,
White House Press Secretary Tony Snow insisted to reporters
that the document’s conclusions were entirely consistent
with the public statements of the president and other Bush
administration officials.
News reports on the NIE “contain nothing that the president
hasn’t said,” Snow told reporters in Riverside, Conn.
“Obviously, we’re not going to go into what the classified
report does say, but … the substance is precisely what the
president has been saying.”
But the actual wording of the NIE contains sobering
conclusions that, in tone and substance, are very different
from what Bush and other administration officials have
recently been saying about the government’s progress in the
war on terror. Even more potentially problematic for the
White House, intelligence-community officials say, there
are at least two more secret studies underway that are
likely to undercut the administration’s public positions
on sensitive national-security issues.
The NIE, which is supposed to reflect the consensus judgment
of the U.S. intelligence community, states that the global
jihadist movement “is spreading and adapting to
counter-terrorism efforts”; that the number of jihadists are
“increasing in both number and geographic dispersion,” and
that the war in Iraq had become “the cause celebre” for
jihadis around the world, “breeding a deep resentment of
U.S involvement in the Muslim world and cultivating
supporters for the global jihadist movement.”
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