How long has Bush and his minions had the NIE that was just released?

[NNN0LHI]

I suspect they have been sitting on this for some time all the while lying to us and saying the opposite of what the report actually says. Does anyone know the date this NIE was produced? Thanks in advance if anyone knows.

Don

[blm]

1. I heard April.

Which just happens to coincide with Kerry's submitted withdrawal plan for Iraq where he cites many of the same situations that are in the report.

Is there ever such a thing as mere coincidence with BushInc?

[exlrrp]

4. Yr right--April

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/09/26/washington/27prexycnd.html?hp&ex=1159329600&en=5656b1b311db33ab&ei=5094&partner=homepage

“Jihadists, although a small percentage of Muslims, are increasing in both number and geographic dispersion,” said the excerpted document, representing the key judgments of a National Intelligence Estimate completed in April 2006 and reflecting the consensus of the nation’s 16 intelligence agencies."

[exlrrp]

2. Two months?

I just read that the report had been ready for 2 months. You betcha Bush wouldn't have rushed it out. I bet they were trying to get away with not letting the people who pay for it--the American People--to see it.
I'm looking for the link

[C_U_L8R]

3. someone said it mentions

Zarqawi still being alive. So it's been around for at least a few months

[bigtree]

5. long time. Bush argued today that it was available to him in February

"As I understand, the conclusions -- the evidence on the conclusions reached was stopped being gathered on February -- at the end of February."

http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2006/09/20060926-3.html


Of course, he didn't read any of it . . . more than he was read to by Condi . . .

"I, of course, read the key judgments on the NIE," he said today.


my latest take:

Letting Lies and Propaganda Dictate

The language from Bush as he defends his administration against the leaked conclusions of the report, which determine his Iraq occupation has worsened the 'terror' threat, is ominously autocratic and transparently manipulative. "We're not going to let lies and propaganda by the enemy dictate how we win this war," he defends.

"And here we are," he says, "coming down the stretch in an election campaign, and it's on the front page of your newspapers. Isn't that interesting? Somebody has taken it upon themselves to leak classified information for political purposes . . . once again, there's a leak out of our government, coming right down the stretch in this campaign, -- to create confusion in the minds of the American people, in my judgment, is why they leaked it."

To Bush, the truth about his reckless, incompetent stewardship of our nation's defenses is 'the enemy'; much like his protege' Maliki, in his contrived, inspired manipulation of the Iraqi press. Increasingly, as his lies have all fallen to the wayside, Bush is reduced to excusing his failures by telling Americans there's some hidden, secret information his agents are withholding from us that will prove how much of a hero and savior he and his War Party has been in protecting us from the violence and unrest his own bungling militarism has actually created and made worse.

No half-assed release by his cronies will absolve him, however. Nor will any of the attempts to ignite a new wave of fear and distraction from their failures which have been so thoroughly highlighted in the congressional campaigns. The republican party and their enabling support of the the lying, dictatorial Bush regime is set to expire, effective with our votes in November."

http://journals.democraticunderground.com/bigtree/1033

[lonestarnot]

6. Cooper Pooper of CNN in talking to Durbin said he'd had it

since April, but why should we believe him.

[Ilsa]

7. He had the gall and stupidity to whine about it being released

just before an election when it was old news. Sooo, why didn't you tell us about it sooner, you ratfinkbastard?

[razors edge]

8. I doubt he has actually yet read

the aug 9 PDB from 2001.