Rep. Harman (D-CA) demands release of 'grim' Iraq intel report

[cynatnite]

Rep. Jane Harman (D-CA), the top Democrat on the House Intelligence Committee, sent a letter to Michael V. Hayden, Director of the CIA, demanding the release of a classified National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that "paints a 'grim' picture of the situation in Iraq," the Los Angeles Times is reporting.

Harman requested the report's release, "charging that the agency was withholding the information out of political considerations," writes Greg Miller in the Times.

"I believe that the intelligence community has produced an in-depth intelligence review of Iraq," Harman said in the letter, "but that the material has been stamped 'draft' and will not be finalized" until after the elections.

The Bush administration released a previous NIE in September, that painted an unflattering picture of the Iraq war's effects on the terror threat. National Intelligence Director John D. Negroponte then acknowledged that there was a second NIE in progress, whose release Harman is now demanding. "Such assessments," Miller writes, "represent the consensus views of all 16 U.S. intelligence agencies."

http://www.rawstory.com/news/2006/Rep._Harman_DCA_demands_release_of_1006.html

[Mnemosyne]

1. k and r n/t

[woldnewton]

2. Nice little lip service...

then again, she was feeling a little heat from Winograd's primary challenge. I think Marcy should run against her again in 2008...

[Jack Rabbit]

3. Good for her.; she needs to go a step further

Jane, don't just urge the crooks and liars in the GOP to release the report; do something to really impress us. Do you remember what Senator Gravel did with The Pentagon Papers years ago? That's what you should do with the NIE.