CIA analysts willing to ‘go to jail’ to ensure NIE’s release

[deminks]

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/07/cia-analysts-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-ensure-nies-release/

Retired Col. W. Patrick Lang, a former official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, reveals that senior CIA analysts pushed for the NIE’s key judgments on Iran to be released, threatening to speak to the media if they weren’t:

The “jungle telegraph” in Washington is booming with news of the Iran NIE. I am told that the reason the conclusions of the NIE were released is that it was communicated to the White House that “intelligence career seniors were lined up to go to jail if necessary” if the document’s gist were not given to the public. Translation? Someone in that group would have gone to the media “on the record” to disclose its contents.

[AuntPatsy]

1. So do we need to be more fearful of what they will do now having been pushed into

a corner unwillingly? What occurs when a rapid animal becomes cornered?

[orleans]

26. well, usually, i would imagine a professional is brought in and the

animal is put down. oh wait. that would be a rabid animal. you said "rapid."

on that note, i would imagine a rapid animal takes a quick break, having been cornered, and then runs off quickly.

[EFerrari]

2. IMPEACH THEM, NANCY! What DO they need to do

before you impeach them?

What's left?

Good God.

[dogday]

3. A Damn Shame that in this country the truth should be silenced

and the lie should be set free... I am honored there are those who still believe in doing the right thing.

[EFerrari]

4. No kidding. Those analysts are risking their careers.

That's humbling.

[formercia]

5. More than their careers

They are putting their lives on the line. I have first-hand experience of how ruthless * Gang can be.

There are many who have already given their lives for the truth.

[EFerrari]

7. It's so disturbing that we've come to this.

That these people have to be willing TO GO TO JAIL for insisting on the truth.

If I believed in a sky god, I'd be calling on him/her right about now.

I used to translate for the DEA and yeah, those boundaries used to be on the honor system. Back when there was honor.

:(

[HowHasItComeToThis]

23. BINGO

[ooglymoogly]

6. and they probably have.

the higher up the food chains and the booshcobal puppets are most likely as we speak figuring out ways to smear them and destroy their careers.

[EFerrari]

8. Oh, for sure. Before this felon is out of office, the casualties

will only continue to mount.

This is the world's biggest train wreck and we're all witnesses.

[KoKo]

9. Look at the Whistle Blowers, the fired DOJA's, Diplomats who've Signed Statements in the NYT

trying to be heard for years. So many people have tried to expose these criminals and Harry Reid wrings his hands and Nancy says "we are too busy doing the people's work" and Waxman, Conyers and Leahy write stern letters and hold hearings.

Seven Years of people in Government speaking out about the abuses, writing books and doing everything they could. And a MSM that gives them a few minutes of time if they are selling a book or have some kind of pull...and then they move on to the latest female they want to expose in a scandal.

So many people trying to do something about this Criminal Enterprise and so little attention. It becomes a one day story and then we move on to another atrocity.

[halobeam]

10. Next Bush bullhorn announcement:

Come out with your hands up, you are surrounded!

(with atrocities, of course)

[Maraya1969]

11. Whoever this was probably stopped a war and spared the lived of

untold numbers of people. This person is a true hero.

[rhett o rick]

18. True heros. I hope to hell this stoped the war, but doubt it. nm

[rucky]

39. It's a hellova lot more difficult now.

For a while there, it looked like the UN Security Council would back it. Not anymore.

But when has that ever stopped 'em?

[rhett o rick]

40. The military is the only ones that can stop this mad man. If he hasn't gotten control

of them they should understand the ramifications of a land war with Iran. We just don't have the troops or equipment.

[L. Coyote]

46. Could be this leak messed up a lot of stock and oil futures gambling too!

The "Iran Scare" had driven up oil prices. Now what if you bought oil futures?

Did the rhetoric come from those making a HUGE profit on BIG OIL?

[malaise]

12. I hope someone in the CIA has a copy of the

torture tapes that were 'destroyed'.

Bushco is history.

[tbyg52]

15. Oh, Lord, how many times have we said that?

How long do we have to keep on saying it? What in the HELL does it take to remove these criminals?

[Cobalt-60]

30. I think we can count on it

Bush and company tried to use the agency as his patsy.
I'm sure the payback has only just begun.
I hear they're not all smiles and sunshine at the CIA.

[awoke_in_2003]

36. Well, we know what happened to the last

president who tried to rein in the CIA :(

[robbedvoter]

13. They got burned already with the Iraq findings - never public, blame on them

Actually, they were public enough for me to read several articles about CIA saying "NO WMD". I guess after taking the blame then, they mustered more political muscle this time to avoid the repeat. Glad they did.

[fascisthunter]

14. There are Good People Still in Government Fighting the Fight

kicking this

[EVDebs]

16. I only regret that I have but one vote for the Greatest Page for this post

These unsung heroes deserve the medals you can be sure they'll never get. Only the solid knowledge that they stopped another stupid war is all they'll get.

[rhett o rick]

17. They are willing to go to jail to stop this mad man. What are you willing to do Nancy?? nm

[awoke_in_2003]

37. "What are you willing to do Nancy?? "

Ensure that the powder stays dry :sarcasm:

[defendandprotect]

19. People are making real sacrifices to help to protect the nation and democracy ---!!!

We need to pay a lot of attention here --- !!!

[SammyWinstonJack]

20. And now, the bu$hco will make sure they end up in Gitmo.

[bbgrunt]

21. may their acts of bravery not be in vain.

[havocmom]

22. There ARE people in service to our nation

who ARE IN SERVICE TO OUR NATION.

And it has long been evident there is a less-than-civil war going on between those who actually serve the nation and those who expect the nation to serve them.

There are lots of decent, brave people who do love America.

We owe them support.

[upi402]

28. True, it's an honor to support them

:patriot:

[BearSquirrel2]

24. You know what this means ...

This means that parts of the NIE assessment were held back as part of a deal. Something even worse was going to be revealed if Dick Cheney's office allowed this to be released.

[Tom Joad]

25. Dan Ellsberg... this is what he has been calling for. He faced what could

have amounted to nearly a life term, but he released the pentagon papers about the war in vietnam. and in every talk he gives now, he pleads that those who had access to share the secrets. I think some people have been listening.

I think the world has been spared a war because of this.. despite the continued work of the war lobbies to thwart this, the damage to their side has been done. i hope and pray it is a fatal blow, at least in regard to an attack against Iran.

[upi402]

27. I figured some old hands would not forget what P-nacsters did

Neocons making the company the scapegoat as they hollowed out this great nation. Then they blame the CIA. There are sharp, true-blue folks in there. And 'Naval Intelligence' is NOT an oxymoron. There are some stunningly brilliant people working for this country in there.

[Canuckistanian]

29. Exact;ly. The old line veterans must be seething.

And what makes it especially galling is that most of the old guys worked under Poppy.

They probably can't believe a Bush is doing this to them.

[formercia]

41. Poppy was doing it to them as well

he was just better at hiding it.

Inbreeding has it's price.

[Canuckistanian]

42. At least Poppy didn't BLAME the agency for his own mistakes

The CIA may be guilty of many things, but BLAMING them for the president's own faults is a new one.

The Company is not used to sabotage and scapegoating from their own bosses.

[greiner3]

31. Thank you Dennis;

And his calling out of cheney on the House's floor. Could that have been the tipping point for these analysists to make their stand?

[annabanana]

32. American Heroes! Each and every one.

America owes them a tremdous debt, and we must keep banging the drums to open the windows and air out the place.

The media is our biggest, noisiest foe.

[Scurrilous]

33. Intelligence expert who rewrote book on Iran

Report has torpedoed plans for military action and brought 'howls' from neocons

<snip>

"The intelligence came from an exotic variety of sources: there was the so-called Laptop of Death; there was the Iranian commander who mysteriously disappeared in Turkey. Also in the mix was video footage of a nuclear plant in central Iran and intercepts of Iranian telephone calls by the British listening station GCHQ.

But pivotal to the US investigation into Iran's suspect nuclear weapons programme was the work of a little-known intelligence specialist, Thomas Fingar. He was the principal author of an intelligence report published on Monday that concluded Iran, contrary to previous US claims, had halted its covert programme four years ago and had not restarted it. Almost single-handedly he has stopped - or, at the very least, postponed - any US military action against Iran.

His report marks a decisive moment in the battle between American neoconservatives and Washington's foreign policy and intelligence professionals - between ideologues and pragmatists. It provided an unexpected victory for those opposed to the neocon plans for a military strike.

The report, the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), which represents the consensus of the 16 US intelligence agencies, gave President George Bush one of his most difficult weeks since taking office in January 2001.

Fingar's findings were met in many Washington offices occupied by foreign policy and intelligence professionals not only with relief but with rejoicing. They had lost out in the run-up to the war in Iraq in 2003, but they are winning this one."

more

[BleedingHeartPatriot]

34. I hold these folks in the same awe inspiring esteem as those who

leaked the information about the moving nukes.

Actions like these inspire others to do the same.

K & R.

MKJ

[femrap]

35. kick and rec

There are people who care! Bless them. IMPEACH NOW! Tis the season to impeach 4 treason! Falalalalalalalalalalala!

[MasonJar]

38. Kudos to some very brave patriots!

[Oilwellian]

43. This gives me hope...

just a little. :kick:

[w8liftinglady]

44. the NIE 2003,2005,and now-get your letters written-educate your neighbors

http://www.thenation.com/blogs/capitalgames?pid=124395
http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/15024576/
http://www.dni.gov/press_releases/Declassified_NIE_Key_Judgments.pdf
http://www.iht.com/articles/2007/12/03/america/03cia.php
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWBT00801220071203?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=true
http://www.reuters.com/article/topNews/idUSWBT00801220071203?feedType=RSS&feedName=topNews&rpc=22&sp=truehttp://www.gwu.edu/~nsarchiv/NSAEBB/NSAEBB129/index.htm
http://homepage.ntlworld.com/jksonc/docs/nie-iraq-wmd.html


wh blather
http://www.whitehouse.gov/news/releases/2007/07/20070717-2.html

[w8liftinglady]

45. I am looking for quotes by Cheney,Rice,Bush,et al to contradict these findings-preferably in the

last year for my next ltte.Pass them on if you have them.