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NYSlimes: NIE Report: New Data, New Methods, New Conclusion
2007-12-05
Even the folks at the NYSlimes sees that something is AFU - they just assign different reasoning.

How could American intelligence agencies have overstated IranÂ’s intentions in 2005 so soon after being reprimanded for making similar errors involving Iraq?

The spy agencies had swallowed hard and pledged to do better after a presidential commission in March 2005 issued a blistering accounting of the intelligence failures leading to the Iraq war.
Posted by:gorb

#2  Would this report be from the same CIA that somehow managed to miss the implosion of the Soviet Union and that little sign in front of a 'warehouse' that said 'Chinese Embassy'?
Posted by: SteveS   2007-12-05 12:47  

#1  Â“Just possibly, the intelligence community may have taken a major step forward,” Senator Rockefeller said.

...and, just possibly, they could've fucked up big time. You'd better hope you're right.
Posted by: tu3031   2007-12-05 12:09  

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