INTELLIGENCE CZAR CENSORS CIA FROM TELLING TRUTH ABOUT IRAQ

[kpete]

Negroponte blocks analysis of Iraq civil war

Director of National Intelligence Michael Negroponte is preventing a thorough examination by intelligence analysts of the civil war in Iraq, RAW STORY has learned.


An excerpt from the blog post is included below.

“What do you call the situation in Iraq right now?” asked one person familiar with the situation. “The analysts know that it's a civil war, but there's a feeling at the top that will complicate matters.” Negroponte, said another source regarding the potential impact of a pessimistic assessment, “doesn't want the president to have to deal with that.”

The sources said that forces at the CIA have been lobbying for the new NIE for about six months. Not only is one overdue, but there's also a fear that if the Democrats win control of at least one chamber of Congress this November, the agency is going to get hammered for not having produced an NIE for so long.

When the topic of a new NIE was first raised, the Directorate of National Intelligence agreed to consider the matter, but advocates heard nothing back. They raised the topic again several months ago and were told that Negroponte was still mulling over the matter. Since then, there's been no indication that the DNI intends to authorize a new NIE. “He's not going to allow analysts to call the situation warts and all,” said one source. “There's real angst about it inside.”

http://www.harpers.org/sb-sources-negroponte-nei-cia-1153433546.html
http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Negroponte_blocks_analysis_of_Iraq_civil_0721.html

[Cooley Hurd]

1. "Michael" Negroponte?

I thought his first name was John?

Despite that minor, irrelevant error, K&R.

[kpete]

3. Thanks for pointing that out

Harper story has it right
http://harpers.org/sb-sources-negroponte-nei-cia-1153433546.html

[highnooner]

9. Michael is John's more evil twin.

[rodeodance]

2. basically, they do not want to know---and this keeps Bush in a bubble.

..” Negroponte, said another source regarding the potential impact of a pessimistic assessment, “doesn't want the president to have to deal with that.”

[stepnw1f]

5. That "bubble" is COver for Bush

It's fiction. The asshole doesn't want to know, or the public to know he knows what's going on.

[babylonsister]

6. They do not want US to know either! nt

[npincus]

4. the CIA is the (a) political wing of the WH

[Poiuyt]

7. They are working very hard not to use the term "Civil War"

[NNN0LHI]

8. DEATH SQUADS R US

That is what they do not want reported. Every time I think of John Negroponte I get sad because Barbara Boxer voted to make him our Director of National Intelligence. Either she didn't know about his death squad past which is really bad. Or she did know about it which is worse. I think she knew about it.

Don