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Article: The National Intelligence Estimate is the intelligence community's "best assessment" of a foreign-policy issue, but the politically manipulated 2002 NIE on Iraq was full of false information and bad assessments that contributed to the Iraq War.(DEEP BACKGROUND)(Brief article)
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- The American Conservative
- Article date:
- December 3, 2007
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The National Intelligence Estimate is the intelligence community's "best assessment" of a foreign-policy issue, but the politically manipulated 2002 NIE on Iraq was full of false information and bad assessments that contributed to the Iraq War. The "lessons learned" from Iraq have meant that all of the information and judgments of the impending NIE on Iran are being looked at very critically. The report is already more than one year late, and it has apparently been rejected in three different drafts because the White House does not find its conclusions "strong enough." The problem is that ...