Release the NIE
Calls from both left and right to release the National Intelligence Estimate which reportedly claimed that the Iraq War has made the war on terror worse.
From the right:
FOR GOD’S SAKE, let’s not turn this NIE into another partisan political battle over intelligence. The American people deserve to know, to the maximum extent possible, the actual findings and conclusions in this NIE and not depend on partial reports and leaks, which could be driven by all sorts of hidden agendas. The White House and DNI Negroponte should ask the members of the 9/11 Commission to independently review the NIE and release an unclassified version or summary of the report as soon as possible.
Instapundit (in his elliptical style, Reynolds hints that the full document would tell a different story. I say “Bring it on.”)
Hidden agendas? Surely not.
From the left:
Josh Marshall (Talking Points Memo)
Do yourself and your country a favor this morning.
Call up your representative and senators — Republican or Democrat, it doesn’t matter — and tell them you want the April National Intelligence Estimate (”Trends in Global Terrorism: Implications for the United States”) released to the public. Now. Before the election. So the public can know what the White House has been keeping from them.
An NIE isn’t some random government white paper. It represents the consensus judgment of the entire US intelligence community, with input from all the different agencies, from CIA and DIA to INR and FBI and all the others. In other words, this is the collaborative judgment of the people actually fighting the War on Terror.
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