Why does a WH spokesman know what's in the Iraq intelligence report?

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Why does White House spokesman Peter Watkins know what's in the National Intelligence report before our representatives in Congress have access to it?!!!

It's alright to get your PR man in on it, but less important for the co-equal branches of our government to be made aware of its full contents. We are truly in the throes of a dictatorship.


WHouse: newspaper's account of Iraq report incomplete

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A newspaper report that a U.S. intelligence analysis said the Iraq war gave rise to a new generation of Islamic radicals and made the overall terrorism problem worse was "not representative of the complete document," the White House said on Sunday.

The New York Times in its Sunday editions reported that a classified National Intelligence Estimate completed in April said Islamic radicalism had mushroomed worldwide and cited the Iraq war as a reason for the spread of jihadist ideology.

It was the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by U.S. intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began in March 2003 and represents a consensus view of the 16 spy services.

"The New York Times' characterization of the NIE is not representative of the complete document," White House spokesman Peter Watkins said.

The spokesman said he would not comment on information contained in the classified document.


http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/security_terrorism_dc&printer=1;_ylt=Ai0kP00bIcY24Ql9Wa1rAl8b.3QA;_ylu=X3oDMTA3MXN1bHE0BHNlYwN0bWE-

[grasswire]

1. for that matter....

...I think I saw Dan Bartlett accompanying Condi Rice at the U.N. He was walking right next to her, along with Bolten and a couple of other people. Why would Bartlett be so closely involved in U.N. bidness?

[babylonsister]

2. Kerry read it, and I suspect the repugs did, too, but didn't want

to entertain any questions about it.

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_mesg&forum=132&topic_id=2843900&mesg_id=2843900

[MissWaverly]

3. Bill Frist said he did not read it because it was "classified"

that was his response on ABC This Week, he said the report had been released in April.

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5. I wonder who has seen the report and why the American people

aren't privy to the conclusions . . . without the WH filter.

[Nictuku]

4. It was Leaked

But it also was due out in April I think, so it was being supressed before it was leaked.

http://tinyurl.com/zj4we

McCaine also said on Face the Nation this morning that he was unaware of it.