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ABC: 'Grim' Afghanistan report to be kept secret by US
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.
Officials say a draft of the classified NIE, representing the key judgments of the US intelligence community's 17 agencies and departments, is being circulated in Washington and a final "coordination meeting" of the agencies involved, under the direction of the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, is scheduled in the next few weeks.
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.
A spokesperson for the Office of the Director of National Intelligence, Vanee Vines, said "it is not the ODNI's policy to publicly comment on national intelligence products that may or may not be in production."
The finished secret NIE would be sent to the White House and other policy makers. US intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly... more -
Huckabee's Continued Foreign Policy Ignorance
Huckabee proves his ignorance on matters of foreign policy:
"(CNN) - Mike Huckabee - whose foreign policy credentials have been under a microscope since he admitted to journalists that he was unaware of a major report on Iran's nuclear weapons program - appeared to make another minor gaffe Thursday when he seemed to suggest incorrectly that Pakistan was currently under martial law."
I guess Huckabee wasn't aware that martial law in Pakistan was lifted two weeks before the assassination. Maybe it's a minor miscommunication, but this is beginning to look like a pattern with Huckabee.
In fact, when confronted with the news of Bhutto's assassination, Huckabee mysteriously uses the situation to reinforce his "hard-line" illegal immigration stance by saying:
"We have more Pakistani illegals coming across our border than all of the other nationalities except those immediately south of the border. In light of what's happening in Pakistan it ought to give us pause."
Pretty crazy, right? Illegal Pakistanis are the second largest group of illegals... amazing that he knew that too, except that the statistics he was using were from a period of 4 years, not 1...
http://youdecide08.foxnews.com/2007/12/28/mike-huckabee...
But anyway, why did Huckabee turn to illegal immigration during his statements on Bhutto's death? Ah... I think his senior aid explained it best:
"The Huckabee official told CNN that when he said that, Huckabee was trying to turn attention away from scrutiny of his foreign policy knowledge."
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/12/28/huckabee.foreign... Huckabee proves his ignorance on matters of foreign policy: ... more -
Huckabee unaware of NIE Iran report
As Huckabee becomes more popular, his foreign policy naivety is becoming equally more popular.
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Kuhn: I don't know to what extent you have been briefed or been able to take a look at the NIE report that came out yesterday ...
Huckabee: I'm sorry?
Kuhn: The NIE report, the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. Have you been briefed or been able to take a look at it ?
Huckabee: No.
Kuhn: Have you heard of the finding?
Huckabee: No.
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The story of Huckabee's ignorance of major foreign policy issues (even I knew about the NIE report, and I'm a college student) is eclipsed by further gaffes about Pakistan. Following his acknowledgment of not knowing about the NIE report, Huckabee went on MSNBC's Morning Joe in order to explain away his 'misunderstanding'. However, while trying to cast aside his own mis-statements, Huckabee manages to make himself look even more ignorant.
Now that we've bungled up foreign policy so much during the Bush administration, do we really need another ignorant President?
Read more;
http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/06/huckabee-nie-mornin...
http://corner.nationalreview.com/post/?q=Yzk1OGE2YzZkZT...= As Huckabee becomes more popular, his foreign policy naivety is becoming equally more popular. ... more -
NIE - Why are so many media experts and government officials attacking it?
"It's not the intelligence community's job to "object" to the Iranian program, it's their job to evaluate factual evidence. And the entire declassified portion of the NIE was less than a thousand words long. Nothing got more than a few sentences of emphasis.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe the NIE, but its actual conclusions are straightforward: Iran wants a nuclear bomb; it has the scientific capability to produce a nuclear bomb; it's continuing to enrich uranium; and it might decide to restart its bomb program in the future. But for now, based (apparently) on new intelligence collected earlier this year, the program is halted and there's evidence that international pressure and sanctions might keep it that way."
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This link will take you to the article on this issue. It appears that the Intelligence Community has addressed all the issues that the experts are saying haven't been addressed.
It seems the war drum beat is persisting and getting louder. "It's not the intelligence community's job to "object" to the Iranian program, it's their job to evaluat... more -
Bush: Pathological liar or idiot-in-chief?
Far more scary than the nuclear threat presented by Iran, the NIE report released this week reveals a more domestic threat to the republic:
We have either a president who is too dishonest to restrain himself from invoking World War Three about Iran at least six weeks after he had to have known that the analogy would be fantastic, irresponsible hyperbole or we have a president too transcendently stupid not to have asked at what now appears to have been a series of opportunities to do so whether the fairy tales he either created or was fed, were still even remotely plausible.
A pathological presidential liar, or an idiot-in-chief. It is the nightmare scenario of political science fiction: A critical juncture in our history and, contained in either answer, a president manifestly unfit to serve, and behind him in the vice presidency: an unapologetic war-monger who has long been seeing a world visible only to himself. Far more scary than the nuclear threat presented by Iran, the NIE report released this week reveals a more domestic threat to the repu... more -
And the Clusterf%*# continues
A grim assessment of the Iraqi government's progress (surprise) points to deep-seeded flaws in the Bush Administration's policies regarding the handling of the war (surprise). The assessment (the National Intelligence Estimate) also points out critical flaws in many Democrats' plans for withdrawal. So it goes. A grim assessment of the Iraqi government's progress (surprise) points to deep-seeded flaws in the Bush Administration's pol... more
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