Thursday, August 03, 2006
Thursday PM: Finally, an NIE on Iraq
The Senate is set to call for a new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, setting the stage for a new, and likely gloomy, U.S. assessment of the prospects there.
Legislative language, authored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., which is to become part of the Senate version of the must-pass defense appropriation bill, calls for the estimate to be issued within 90 days, according to a statement from Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., the chairman of the powerful intelligence committee.
As Ken Silverstein (don't we all want to be Ken when we grow up? I know I do) revealed last month, the fact that there hasn't been an NIE on Iraq is frustrating some in the CIA. He also reported last week that six democratic senators had written to the the Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, asking for an updated NIE.
Now it looks like there might be one. About time, too.
Another piece of Senate intel news. The committee has approved two of the five sections of its long-awaited Phase Two report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Won't be declassified until September at the earliest though. More on this tomorrow.
Legislative language, authored by Sen. Edward Kennedy, D-Mass., which is to become part of the Senate version of the must-pass defense appropriation bill, calls for the estimate to be issued within 90 days, according to a statement from Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., the chairman of the powerful intelligence committee.
As Ken Silverstein (don't we all want to be Ken when we grow up? I know I do) revealed last month, the fact that there hasn't been an NIE on Iraq is frustrating some in the CIA. He also reported last week that six democratic senators had written to the the Director of National Intelligence John Negroponte, asking for an updated NIE.
Now it looks like there might be one. About time, too.
Another piece of Senate intel news. The committee has approved two of the five sections of its long-awaited Phase Two report on pre-war intelligence on Iraq. Won't be declassified until September at the earliest though. More on this tomorrow.
