Perino: ‘White House Has Been Very Forthcoming In Putting Forward NIEs’
Perino: ‘White House Has Been Very Forthcoming In Putting Forward NIEs’
A new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq is scheduled to be completed this month. Yet intelligence officials are still debating whether or not to make the key judgments public, as they did with the most recent report on Iran.
During today’s White House press briefing, a reporter asked spokeswoman Dana Perino whether the White House supports keeping the new NIE classified. Perino said that the decision will ultimately be up to the intelligence community, but added, “Obviously, this White House has been very forthcoming in putting forward NIEs, as we’ve all been familiar with over the past several years.” Watch it:
In reality, however, the White House has been less than forthcoming with the NIEs. Some highlights:
– In an internal memo last October, DNI Mike McConnell said that he believes NIEs “should not be declassified.” [Link]
– Vice President Cheney’s office attempted to manipulate the last NIE on Iran. A draft was reportedly completed in 2006, but the White House rejected it because it contained dissenting views. A former intelligence officer said, “They refused to come out with a version that had dissenting views in it.” [Link]
– Regarding the most recent NIE on Iran, former CIA officer Philip Giraldi said that “intelligence analysts have had to review and rewrite their findings three times, because of pressure from the White House.” [Link]
– After the key judgments of the Iran NIE were declassified, the White House quickly attempted to discredit them. In meetings with Israeli Prime Minister Ehud Olmert, Bush said that the NIE’s conclusions on Iran “didn’t reflect his own views.” [Link]
– Prior to the Iraq war, the Air Force, Energy Department, and State Department all issued dissenting views on the state of Iraq’s progress towards a nuclear program. The White House, however, ignored these views and pushed inaccurate stories about Iraq’s alleged WMD. [Link, Link, Link]
Transcript:
Q Do you support keeping the new NIE on Iraq classified, or do you think Americans should know what’s going on?
MS. PERINO: That’s a decision that’s made, as you read in the report today, that the national intelligence community gets together, all 16 of them, and they make a determination and a judgment — and I don’t have a comment on it today.
Q Well, what is the view of the White House?
MS. PERINO: Look, I haven’t seen that — I don’t know what’s in the report. I leave it to the judgment of the intelligence community. Obviously, this White House has been very forthcoming in putting forward NIEs, as we’ve all been familiar with over the past several years.
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One of these days a sliver of truth will emanate from Dame Dana’s rosy lips.
And on that day hell will freeze over.
Just saying . . .
March 7th, 2008 at 8:04 pmThe LIE is news – the truth is just an annoyance – when will this liars club of criminals every have to pay the piper – BARF!!!!!!
March 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pmIf it’s Perino, it must be a deliberate lie.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:07 pmI bet she’s a hit at all the cocktail parties. Story after story after story.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:11 pmThe White House: “We are the Nuts that say NIE!“
March 7th, 2008 at 8:12 pmCould it be the girl really has no clue of any of the topics she speaks of? Did the neocons pick this pretty young thing as a distraction and of an age many would feel uncomfortable asking the tough very needed questions?
***Had Hussein Enough***
March 7th, 2008 at 8:14 pmIf it’s Perino, it must be a deliberate lie.
Comment by Red Pill — March 7, 2008 @ 8:07 pm
That’s a little harsh, isn’t it?
I mean, she seems perfectly capable of speaking sincerely-held mistaken beliefs, as well.
– Ralph Hussein Wonder Llama
March 7th, 2008 at 8:18 pmThis stupid cow is hilarious!! She’s made herself a laughingstock in a much shorter time than Scottie or Snowflake.
Her pearls must be too tight….
~Hussein Zooey
March 7th, 2008 at 8:29 pmLet’s try that again!
Q: As the majority public has wanted the US to quit Iraq since mid-2005 and that majority is now over 70%, why wouldn’t the White House release the NIE which must surely confirm the White House position that progress is being made in Iraq and that surge has worked and is still working, and thus reverse an apparently mistaken contrary public perception?
March 7th, 2008 at 8:32 pmone more dana purina post and i’m scratching tp from my faves list.
jesus – spend a little more time looking around – there is a TON of other important sh*t going on to make threads out of
is there some fat girl working at TP that dana made fun of in jr. high?
some pimply nerd she wouldn’t go out with in high school?
what?
she’s an idiot mouthpiece for an idiot president – WE GET IT
March 7th, 2008 at 8:38 pmComment by tombaker — March 7, 2008 @ 8:38 pm
I agree, tombaker.
Let’s have a Perino & McCain free day at TP.
March 7th, 2008 at 8:49 pmMusic night at TheZoo!
March 7th, 2008 at 9:09 pmThis Administration is disgusting in how it hides things from the American people. And let’s face it folks, the Clintons would be a continuation. She is hiding her tax returns even though she donated $5 mil over her own money to her campaign. She is hiding her records as First Lady even though she says her experience as First Lady makes her more qualified than Barack Obama. She is hiding her and Bill’s records of their “charity” worth more than $500 million dollars which employed key campaign staffers and to which their campaign donors have contributed tens of millions of dollars.
In contrast Barack Obama has fought for openness in government. Because of his legislation, you can find what the government pays to contractors, whose money lobbyists bundle and all sorts of other inconvenient facts about money in politics. Obama doesn’t take money from lobbyists, unlike all the others.
Obama is not perfect, but he is a lot better and smarter than the others.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:17 pmprogress is being made in Iraq and that surge has worked and is still working, …..
Comment by 5th Estate — March 7, 2008 @ 8:32 pm
The Surge is OVER! The Tide is now going out. Gen. Petraeus is REDUCING the number of Brigades. The Number of troops in Iraq will be going DOWN all the way to election day. The Military has no choice…they have no more fresh , well trained troops to send to Iraq.
we’ll all get to see what has worked and what is still working.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:34 pmI see Miss Dana had a turtleneck in the photo above. Cheney probably got to her and told her she had to give up a Qt of blood.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:35 pmWhite House Has Been Very Forthcoming In Putting Forward LIEs.
March 7th, 2008 at 9:40 pm“Whatever we get caught at, I’ll have to answer about, but everything else is classified, so you are traitors to ask.”
March 7th, 2008 at 9:48 pmI just wish Perino would dress in shorter skirts for these press conferences. I don’t think more cleavage is asking too much, either!
March 7th, 2008 at 10:09 pmBut her fashion, it’s so, so like, er, Logan’s Run…
March 7th, 2008 at 10:11 pmFine. Don’t release the NIE. We’ll read the leaked unedited version then. (It’s a good thing she’s not Pinocchio. Her nose would stretch from here to the moon.)
March 7th, 2008 at 10:20 pmWhat a total dolt. Dana Perino is yet another sad hack working for this administration. Has there ever been another administration in history that has been able to hire as many incompetents as this one? I don’t think so.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:21 pmIt is worth calling out a lie whenever one is said. To long have we had the opposite poisoning our discourse.
March 7th, 2008 at 10:33 pmHear hear, DWC@23! Would that the supine press would have the courage to do so!
March 7th, 2008 at 10:45 pmThe White House needs to remember they work for the people and it is not their job to provide smoke and mirrors or play partisan patty-cake.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:10 pmComment by Xisithrus — March 7, 2008 @ 11:10 pm
Good luck on that. As long as we continue to give them our tax money to channel off to theIr and their friends bank accounts, we are great. Other than that…STFU.
They want our money but we are such an absolute pain in the a$$ for anything other than that.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:24 pmComment by Ms_Joanne — March 7, 2008 @ 11:24 pm
Let’s see. We’re force to fork over a portion of our money. We have little, if any, sayso as to how it’s spent. They don’t want to use any of it to actually benefit the citizens of this nation. They lie about it constantly. They lie about everything constantly. They tell us to be afraid on a daily basis. Millions of homeowners are losing their homes. Gas prices have already surpassed $4 per gallon in California. And not one person is doing a single thing about it. What’s wrong with this picture?
March 7th, 2008 at 11:35 pmComment by Mr. Evil — March 7, 2008 @ 11:35 pm
Republiscums are in it. That will sully any picture.
March 7th, 2008 at 11:43 pmCase of another “Bad Slide” Dana?
Perhaps the talking point should have read “The White House has been very forthcoming with LIE reports?”
March 7th, 2008 at 11:47 pmI find this story much more disgusting.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8482835
March 8th, 2008 at 12:05 amHere’s a late-breaking news item:
San Diego’s channel nine just announced (9:00 pm pacific) that Blackwater has withdrawn it’s bid for permission by local residents to build a training facility in Potrero, Ca.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:06 amBarfly, that’s awesome! There’s about to be one safer community without them!
March 8th, 2008 at 12:08 amAnd then there’s this dispiriting story.
http://www.dailynews.com/news/ci_8482872
March 8th, 2008 at 12:12 amI agree, Ms_Joanne.
Perhaps they’ve decided to go someplace offshore to practice their thuggish tactics.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:13 amAs a side note anyone here care to explain this BS?:
Comment by Tracy2 — March 7, 2008 @ 11:44 pm
So I read the link. Explain what? Why would I or anyone else here need or bother to explain anything?
Back under the bridge, troll.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:14 amI am sure there are other countries whose dictators would love to engage the Blackwater and KBR thugs once our dictator goes away (god willing!)
March 8th, 2008 at 12:16 am“And then there’s this dispiriting story.”
Comment by Ms_Joanne
You do know what the next step in this disgusting, ridiculous mess is, right? These properties will become gutted hulks, and religious organizations will snatch up the land for next to nothing, because they will promise the municipalities to turn them into rehabilitated housing.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:18 amThe next President of the USA, in answering their “phone call at 3:00am” ala Hillary Clinton’s commercial, will be thinking, “What George Bush Republican mess do I have to fix now?”
March 8th, 2008 at 12:22 amAnd by “religious organizations,” I mean Jeebus-come-lately’s like “Joe-Bob’s Rib Shack and Pentecostalist Purgatorium.”
March 8th, 2008 at 12:23 amYea, well I’d still rather have a bottle in front of me, than a frontal lobotomy.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:26 amAt some point the churches are going to start to feel the crunch, too. Talk about a rich operation. Take money from you to enrich them. Priceless.
That’s not to say that some don’t do damned good work. But not as many as should.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:29 amI know a great place for Blackwater to relocate: Tijuana. I’ll bet the mexicans would love to have a bunch of dumbshit gringoes doing special ops training in the hills. And the Blackwater boys could get some live-fire training.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:34 amStupid Question: These conferences are taped aren’t they ? How come no one has done a voice stress analysis to have indications of exactly which sentences are hiding the truth ?
March 8th, 2008 at 12:36 am#45, don’t give them any ideas. Some of those poor people down there have to walk two hours each way to get water.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:36 am.
I’m a Barbie girl, in the Bushie world…
Charge on plastic, debts fantastic.
You can question me, I’ll just drink my tea…
Imagination, LIES are my creation.
I’m a blond, bimbo girl in this fantasy world…
Cuss me up, take your time, I’ll give folly.
Come on Dana, whatcha say now… Oh, Oh, Oh, Yea
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That’s about all she’s good for.
A cheep joke.
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March 8th, 2008 at 12:37 amYou are OK with the judge denying the yound man’s request to join the military even though her decision was based not in law but purely on her own personal political position?
Comment by Tracy2
I’m ok with the judge siding with the child’s legal guardian’s wishes. Something wrong with that? Let the kid reach 18 and enlist. What’s the rush? It’s not as if we’re going to leave Iraq anytime soon.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:42 amOops, misread Tracy’s article. Mea culpa.
But what’s the rush? He’ll be legal age soon, and able to make the decision for himself.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:49 amMake her stop please, make her stop. Cranking out the bullshit day after friking day. Groundhog day, groundhog day, did I say groundhog day?
March 8th, 2008 at 12:52 amPlease don’t feed the troll.
Please, pretty please?
March 8th, 2008 at 12:53 am“His foster parents, as well as his social worker, supported his decision to enlist early. Despite being denied, he still shows up for USMC physical training.â€
Comment by Tracy2 — March 8, 2008 @ 12:49 am
Not enough dead kids for you, t2? Why don’t you sign up in his place, coward.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:07 amWhy should we “explain” the Judge’s actions to anyone, let alone an idiot troll?
March 8th, 2008 at 2:36 amDoes she wake up in the morning, see herself in the mirror and start to lie? I only heard her voice lying! Never heard her saying anything other than a lie! She get payed to lie to the American people in the name of the American poeple…
March 8th, 2008 at 4:37 amThe most secrecy-driven administration in this country’s history and she says it has been forthcoming about NIE’s.
Puuuuuhhhhlleeeeeze!
What arrogant bullshit!
March 8th, 2008 at 5:49 amNJ: Casino Mogul Funded Anti-Dem Surveillance Ads
By Paul Kiel – March 7, 2008,
http://tpmmuckraker.talkingpointsmemo.com/2008/03/nj_casino_mogul_funded_antidem.php
“Sheldon Adelson, the billionaire casino mogul, “chipped in much of the $2 million,” citing “sources.”
Adelson is also the owner and publisher of Israel Today
March 8th, 2008 at 7:39 amhttp://www.forward.com/articles/11408/
If she shifted that N two places to the left in the alphabet she’d be telling the truth.
March 8th, 2008 at 7:55 amdrop a house on her.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:05 amIf you are on the fence about making public the NIEs, read from the following link.
http://www.smh.com.au/news/world/they-knew-but-did-nothing/2008/03/07/1204780065676.html?page=fullpage#contentSwap1.
I have a more sinister view of what happened on 9/11. We all remember the seven minutes of silence by our little woodenhead president at that Florida pre-school and I have a theory (besides ineptness).
I believe that it is entirely possible that Bush new of the planned attack on the World Trade Center and that he and hist administration allowed the plan to go forward. Iin this scenario Bush’s advisers probably told him that the chance of these planes hitting their target were zero to none, and that the planes would miss the intended targets and hit surrounding areas instead, which was acceptable and would have provided the excuse to usurp our constitutional rights.
So, when Bush was informed that the World Trade Center and the Pentagon were hit, he knew that he had either been given very bad advice or that he had been set up by the neocons and members of his administration – to which he is now a captive.
Anyone would have been speechless under these circumstances.
March 8th, 2008 at 8:16 amI am not the idiot that is still in school…..still.
Comment by Tracy2 — March 8, 2008 @ 10:05 am
you should have finished. Your dropout status is clear whenever you show up. Either that, or you are simply retarded, socially and intellectually. Which is it?
March 8th, 2008 at 11:07 amHe is leagally able to make the decision now. It’s none of the judge’s business that he wants to join.
Comment by Tracy2 — March 8, 2008 @ 12:51 am
That is exactly the argument I keep trying to get these idiot parents who think they can tell their legal daugthers what to do with their own bodies just because “if you live under my roof”.
March 8th, 2008 at 11:30 amComment by Zooey — March 8, 2008 @ 2:36 am
I am not the idiot that is still in school…..still.
Comment by Tracy2
Just because you bumped into the limit of your learning abilities around age 9 doesn’t mean everyone does. Some people keep learning their whole lives. idiot.
March 8th, 2008 at 12:55 pmAnd speaking of moronic middle school drop-out trolls, anybody heard from Mcbigfoot lately?e must have lost his minimum wage job at the auto wrecking yard and the bank repoed his trailer.
March 8th, 2008 at 1:14 pm