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Politics : Foreign Affairs Discussion Group
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To: Ruffian who wrote (250512)12/4/2007 2:29:35 PM
From: carranza2  Read Replies (1) of 281500
 
Agree.

I think the NIE was choreographed, orchestrated, part of a plan whose outlines we can barely perceive.

I have a lot of trouble believing any NIE issued for public consumption has any intelligence value whatsoever. For intelligence to be valuable, it has to be secret. A public NIE is a contradiction in terms, an oxymoron.

I see the NIEs which are issued for public consumption as political instruments, designed to do something.

This one was specifically designed to take the heat off Iran. And it was issued because W said 'go ahead.' Bush for reasons we can only guess at has decided to let Iran off the hook.

But it came with a price Iran had to pay, you can be assured of that. There was otherwise no reason to issue it.
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