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U.S. intelligence tackles climate change.(Environment)

When congressional Democrats mandated a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) assessing climate change's potential effect on national security, Republicans accused them of caring more about "bugs and bunnies" than hunting for al Qaeda. The effort to prevent the estimate failed, but the project is in train during 2007. But the episode did raise important questions about the role of U.S. intelligence in subjects not traditionally associated with secrets or "spook-dom." Congresswoman Jane Harman, a California Democrat and the former ranking member on the Intelligence panel, defended the idea of an estimate: "This isn't bugs or bunnies, it is survival or destruction. Droughts ...

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