Sen. Armed Serv. Comm. want NIE on Iraq before Crocker/Petraeus testimony.

[laststeamtrain]

Senate Armed Services Committee chairman press release: "Today, Senators Edward M. Kennedy and Carl Levin, Chairman of the Senate Armed Services Committee, sent the following letter to McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence, asking him to release an unclassified summary of key conclusions and assessments included in the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. Kennedy and Levin state that there is no reason for this request to be denied, and ask that the information be provided before General Petraeus’s and Ambassador Crocker’s forthcoming testimony before Congress."

http://www.warandpiece.com/blogdirs/007257.html

[jody]

1. Shrewd move. n/t

[alstephenson]

2. Thanks, Senators!