By Mike (Not Admin)
The current political fracas in Washington has to do with the National Intelligence Estimate. The NIE is a report that the government periodically issues on a particular topic, in this case the spread of anti-Americanism and Islamic extremism, which condenses the best guesses of all of the intelligence agencies into a single document. The most famous NIE of recent years was published about Saddam Hussein’s WMD programs, and it was from that report that President Bush drew the “evidence” he used in his infamous 2003 State of the Union address. Of course, as that incident demonstrates, the NIE is certainly not free from political manipulation, and should be taken with a hefty grain of salt.
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