Iraq (NIE) intelligence report expected after November

[sabra]

http://www.alertnet.org/thenews/newsdesk/N27241265.htm

Iraq intelligence report expected after November

WASHINGTON, Sept 27 (Reuters) - The Bush administration has begun work on a new intelligence report about Iraq that is not expected to be completed before the Nov. 7 election and possibly not until January, officials said on Wednesday.

But the report, which intelligence officials began working on about six weeks ago, has already been swept up in a political storm over the Iraq war and the U.S. war on terrorism, as Republicans and Democrats campaign for control of Congress.

The document, known as a national intelligence estimate, would show how the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies judge the stability of the Iraqi government and the prospects for controlling sectarian violence that threatens civil war.

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But knowledgeable officials said the report was never expected to emerge before early November.

"This is a two-to-four month process. There is no hard and fast deadline because of how fast they did the 2002 NIE on Iraq. They did that in three weeks, and it showed," said a Democratic Senate aide familiar with report preparations.

[kangaroo77]

1. There's another report finding Iraq/terrorism link

But it won't be released until 2007.

[populistdriven]

2. PREDICTION: dollars to donuts its going to lay groundwork for Iran War

Makes even more sense when you listen to the propaganda that the next NIE is to "focus more on Iraq"

[Monkeyman]

3. House Democratic Ranking member on the Committees

Demand the report today. That was never going to happen. The Iraq NIC report is three time worse