W.House considers declassifying intelligence report

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N26341819.htm

W.House considers declassifying intelligence report

WASHINGTON, Sept 26 (Reuters) - The Bush administration said on Tuesday it may declassify an intelligence report in order to respond to Democrats who say the document shows the Iraq war has been a distraction from the war on terrorism.

White House spokeswoman Dana Perino said officials were "giving serious consideration" to releasing the National Intelligence Estimate on the U.S. terrorism threat to demonstrate that the section being seized on by Democrats is only one part of the overall picture.

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Perino said one paragraph in the lengthy report was "wildly taken out of context" and that some officials believe the whole document, provided to the U.S. Congress in April, should be released to put that paragraph in context.

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Sen. Pat Roberts of Kansas, Republican chairman of the Select Committee on Intelligence, urged the administration on Monday to declassify the document so Americans could reach their own conclusions.

[jasmeel]

1. They'll probably redact all but the words Iraq ... war .... good n/t

[grytpype]

6. heh heh

truth

[DoYouEverWonder]

2. Then go ahead and declassify the darn thing

there are many of us out here who would love to read it.

Makes you wonder why they classify these things to begin with?

[babylonsister]

3. Amazing. After all these years, now this admin wants to share

info? I smell a big fat hairy rat.

[zanne]

4. It won't happen. nt

[grytpype]

7. Yeah, if there was anything good in there they would have declassified it

by now. This report is dated April.

[Kolesar]

10. bush* will declassify it if it is politically advantageous to him

...and if he & Rove can craft an anti-Democratic Party message that the networks will blast at us.

[enough already]

11. This sounds like another Rove setup

I hate that fat prick

[grytpype]

13. Nah, nah.

If there was anything good, we would have heard about it months ago.

I think they are going to release selected portions of the NIE that put them in a good light (such as number of "terrorists" killed, schools painted, etc.) and withhold the rest.

[MaineDem]

5. Should be all or nothing

If they don't release the entire document I suspect they're hiding the true meaning of the NIE.

[enough already]

12. You assume the pukes play fair. n/t

[EarthNeedsHope]

8. They'll make sure to doctor it first then declassify it

That's what they really mean.

[Vidar]

9. It'll read like the Roswell reports with 2/3 of the words blacked out.