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To: LindyBill who wrote (230380)	12/5/2007 3:14:53 AM
From: KLP	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 793914

No kidding! Now they have done a 180-degree turn on Iran, and in such a way that will contribute to a complacency that will make it easier for Iran to build a weapon. Our intelligence services are supposed to inform the policies of elected officials, but increasingly their judgments seem to be setting policy. This is dangerous. Here's a bit about the "three main writers of the New NIE Report"..... They are Tom Fingar, formerly of the State Department's Bureau of Intelligence and Research; Read: pundita.blogspot.com Vann Van Diepen, the National Intelligence Officer for WMD; and Read: formerspook.blogspot.com for Dec 4th and Dec 5th re: NIE Kenneth Brill, the former U.S. Ambassador to the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA). Read: Frank Gaffney of NRO didn't like Brill back in 2005 (to say the least) nationalreview.com Brill was ambassador to Cyprus under Clinton (Billary( govexec.com Oh, good grief....aren't there any good people from State? state.gov