Senate Intelligence Report: What the Dems Didn't See

(U) Conclusion 85. The Intelligence Community’s elimination of the caveats from the unclassified White Paper misrepresented their judgments to the public which did not have access to the classified National Intelligence Estimate containing the more carefully worded assessments.

Conclusion 86. The names of agencies which had dissenting opinions in the classified National Intelligence Estimate were not included in the unclassified white paper and in the case of the unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs), the dissenting opinion was excluded completely. In both cases in which there were dissenting opinions, the dissenting agencies were widely regarded as the primary subject matter experts on the issues in question. Excluding the names of the agencies provided readers with an incomplete picture of the nature and extent of the debate within the Intelligence Community regarding these issues.

Conclusion 87. The key judgment in the unclassified October 2002 White Paper on Iraq’s potential to deliver biological agents conveyed a level of threat to the United States homeland inconsistent with the classified National Intelligence Estimate.

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rumi on November 13, 2005 at 12:18 am

I think this link Full text: Conclusions of Senate’s Iraq report might elaborate on that…in between redactions.

Here’s another one that’s probably already been posted but it helps put the situation in perspective

Elizabeth de la Vega: The White House Criminal Conspiracy, TomDispatch/The Nation, October 29, 2005 CIA-Cover-Gate
One example of how Bush&Co. conned the nation into war: "The October NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] was poorly prepared -- and flawed. But it was flawed in favor of the administration, which took that skewed assessment and misrepresented it further in the only documents that were available to the public. The ninety-page classified NIE was delivered to Congress at10 PM on October 1, the night before Senate hearings were to begin. But members could look at it only under tight security on-site. They could not take a copy with them for review. They could, however, remove for review a simultaneously released white paper, a glitzy twenty-five-page brochure that purported to be the unclassified summary of the NIE. This document, which was released to the public, became the talking points for war. And it was completely misleading. It mentioned no dissents; it removed qualifiers and even added language to distort the severity of the threat. Several senators requested declassification of the full-length version so they could reveal to the public those dissents and qualifiers and unsubstantiated additions, but their request was denied. Consequently, they could not use many of the specifics from the October NIE to explain their opposition to war without revealing classified information." (11/1)

keepinon on November 14, 2005 at 9:21 am

….then add two teaspoons of 85, a dash of 86, and finally 87 to taste! (End of a recipe for cooking intelligence)

rumi on November 14, 2005 at 9:33 am

Is that the one that calls for simmering the mix until it all boils over out of control?
- keepinon on November 14, 2005 at 3:17 pm
  
  Yep! Also the one that smells real good while you are cooking it, but is real tough to swallow and makes you sick when you eat it.

rumi on November 13, 2005 at 12:18 am

I think this link Full text: Conclusions of Senate’s Iraq report might elaborate on that…in between redactions.

Here’s another one that’s probably already been posted but it helps put the situation in perspective

Elizabeth de la Vega: The White House Criminal Conspiracy, TomDispatch/The Nation, October 29, 2005 CIA-Cover-Gate
One example of how Bush&Co. conned the nation into war: "The October NIE [National Intelligence Estimate] was poorly prepared -- and flawed. But it was flawed in favor of the administration, which took that skewed assessment and misrepresented it further in the only documents that were available to the public. The ninety-page classified NIE was delivered to Congress at10 PM on October 1, the night before Senate hearings were to begin. But members could look at it only under tight security on-site. They could not take a copy with them for review. They could, however, remove for review a simultaneously released white paper, a glitzy twenty-five-page brochure that purported to be the unclassified summary of the NIE. This document, which was released to the public, became the talking points for war. And it was completely misleading. It mentioned no dissents; it removed qualifiers and even added language to distort the severity of the threat. Several senators requested declassification of the full-length version so they could reveal to the public those dissents and qualifiers and unsubstantiated additions, but their request was denied. Consequently, they could not use many of the specifics from the October NIE to explain their opposition to war without revealing classified information." (11/1)
keepinon on November 14, 2005 at 9:21 am

….then add two teaspoons of 85, a dash of 86, and finally 87 to taste! (End of a recipe for cooking intelligence)
- rumi on November 14, 2005 at 9:33 am
  
  Is that the one that calls for simmering the mix until it all boils over out of control?
  - keepinon on November 14, 2005 at 3:17 pm
    
    Yep! Also the one that smells real good while you are cooking it, but is real tough to swallow and makes you sick when you eat it.

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