Friday, November 09, 2007

CHENEY UNABLE TO STIFLE DISSENTING N.I.E. ON IRAN
(But key findings will be kept secret from public)

"A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran... The White House wants a document that it can use as evidence for its Iran policy... (but) some analysts have refused to go along... The White House has now apparently decided to release the unsatisfactory draft NIE, but without making its key findings public..."
http://www.ipsnews.net/news.asp?idnews=39978