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Thursday, January 25, 2007

NIE Report will Undermine Case For Escalation

    Once a scammer, always a scammer! That would be the Bush Crime Family once again.

    Think Progress:

NPR’s Rehm: Delayed Iraq NIE Will Undermine Case For Escalation

Six months ago, Harper’s Ken Silverstein reported that “in spite of pressure from CIA analysts, intelligence czar John Negroponte was blocking a new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq.” National Intelligence Estimates present the consensus view of the U.S. intelligence apparatus. Despite pressure from Congress, the administration insisted it could not complete the NIE until January 2007.

Last week, however, an administration intelligence official told senators that the report is still not complete. According to Silverstein, Senate hearing attendees “believe that senior intelligence officials are stalling because an NIE will be bleak enough to present a significant political liability.”

Yesterday, NPR host Diane Rehm may have revealed why the NIE remains so politically sensitive. On her national radio show, Rehm said:

It’s my understanding that the National Intelligence Estimate…is going to suggest that adding troops is the wrong way to go, that it’s not going to improve the situation.

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Yesterday, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA), Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV), and the House and Senate intelligence committee chairmen wrote President Bush “urging prompt completion of a national intelligence estimate (NIE) on Iraq first requested by Congress six months ago.” Read the full letter HERE.

 

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ACLU To Continue Push In Wiretap Lawsuit

   For the record, I am not a big fan of the ACLU but I do find a reason now and then to support their efforts such as the ACLU's lawsuit against the terrorist surveillance program created by the Bush Crime Family to spy on the fine citizens of the United States at will and without warrants.

   From The Associated Press

by LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer

WASHINGTON - The Bush administration sought on Thursday to drop its appeal of a federal court ruling that concluded the government's domestic spying program is unconstitutional, saying the entire issue is moot since the surveillance now is monitored by a secret court.

Responding, lawyers for the American Civil Liberties Union said they would continue to push for their day in court since President Bush retains authority to continue the warrantless spying program.       Entire Article

     The ACLU should be supported by all of us in this matter to make sure that Bushco stops this illegal use of wiretaps once and for all. they should not have the right to retain authority to do this at a later time. This is just another way to sneak the wiretaps back into action without any oversight!

 

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