Bush administration has ‘no plans’ to declassify ‘grim’ Afghanistan NIE before the election.
Bush administration has ‘no plans’ to declassify ‘grim’ Afghanistan NIE before the election.
ABC News reports that the Bush administration has “no plans to declassify” the forthcoming National Intelligence Estimate on Afghanistan before the election:
U.S. intelligence analysts are putting the final touches on a secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Afghanistan that reportedly describes the situation as “grim”, but there are “no plans to declassify” any of it before the election, according to one US official familiar with the process. [...]
According to people who have been briefed, the NIE will paint a “grim” picture of the situation in Afghanistan, seven years after the US invaded in an effort to dismantle the al Qaeda network and its Taliban protectors.
The plan to cover up the “grim” reality of the war in Afghanistan is not surprising given the Bush administration’s history of “selectively declassifying” such reports for political gain.
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I posted this in a earlier thread.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:42 pmDoes it seem like Bush is manipulating the election on purpose?
You bet ya.
Hopefully, some true patriot will leak it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pmKeeping it classified helps McCain.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:52 pmCongress caved on offshore oil drilling
Fother chuckers! Kick the barstids out of Washington. I’m sick of Congress and BushCo greasing the skids for big oil and Wall Street.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 pmThey don’t need to release the NIE for Afghanistan. The American people are waking up to the fact that Obama called it months ago. The same with Pakistan.
And they are sitting up and taking notice of Obama on the economy. He appears calm, serious and thoughtful, but not weak. McStain is soiling himself trying to figure out what to say or what to do.
I’m lovin’ me some Obama more and more each day! But let’s keep our eye on the ground game and let’s not stop until the polls close on November 4th.
PEACE
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:53 pmChuck ‘em! Chuck ‘em all! A pox on every Congressional and White House leaders’ house….
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:54 pmA little fresh info might actually help the dotard mcmaverick, since he’s missed all his committee meetings on the Afghan conflict -
but I’m sure Dubbie and Dickie are doing every duplicitous back-channel thing they can to help their pals “maintain and enhance revenues” even after they leave office, which means keeping a R in the WH.
John McCain – Country (owes him a free pass) First
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmObiously there is no good news in the estimate or else it would be released to the public. Time to get out of Iraq and Afghanistan and let those people settle their own differences. Afterall, the mission has been accomplished and the surge worked.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:56 pmIt’s the November 6th surprise! After Barack does his victory lap, Bush will try to dump on him with this. If Dumbya was anymore transparent, he’d be replacing Jessica Alba in the next Fantastic Four movie.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:57 pmSince I think 2003, but certainly since the summer of 2004 the NIE has never been promptly published.
NIE = Not In an Election.
September 23rd, 2008 at 7:58 pmWE PAID FOR THAT REPORT. It’s ours. We can and should demand to see it.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:06 pmWayne Says:
I posted this in a earlier thread.
Does it seem like Bush is manipulating the election on purpose?
You bet ya.
It’s gotten to the point that I have to wonder if Bush’s plan is to destroy our government, after all Grandpa Prescott Bush did business with the Nazi’s and wanted to overthrow Pres. Roosevelt,maybe he’s carrying on a family tradition.
I just saw some figures flashed on the screen on the Bloomberg Financial Channel.
I have the sound off. I don’t remember the exact figures but it went something like this:
2009 Federal budget deficit: $468 billion dollars
Cost of “bailout: $1.2 trillion dollars
Cost of US wars $800 billion dollars
I assume they meant the estimated final cost of the wars and proposed bailout.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:07 pmBush and his gang have dug the grave of the US Federal Government, they used 9-11 as cover for doing it.
Remember when he told us to go to the mall and spend after 9-11.
a bit OT, but election related:
remember my outrage last night, about bill fookin clinton on letterman?
hell, i thought i was the only one who saw it, at least the only only who was pissed off about it…
i don’t know who this guy is, but he says exactly what needs said, and i think the message needs passed on.
A Note to Bill Clinton
Paul Slansky
Given that we would never have had the odious George W. Bush in the White House in the first place if it wasn’t for your bl0w jobs, Bill, it seems obvious that you owe it to the people of this country, and especially to the parents whose kids died in the Iraq War that Gore would never have started, and to all the parents whose kids would be killed in the WarFest that would be a McCain/Palin — sorry, Palin/McCain administration — to do everything in your power to get Barack Obama elected.
But that’s not what you’re doing, Bill, and it’s not going unnoticed. We see your rage, Bill, it’s too huge to hide. We see that — as Chris Rock so brilliantly pointed out — it pains you to even speak Obama’s name. We see you petulantly rooting against him even as you go through the motions of doing the barest minimum on his behalf to avoid being blamed if he loses.
You’re not fooling anyone, Bill. [...] [MUST READ]
If Obama loses a close election — one in which even one state where you could have made a difference goes for McCain because you sat home and pouted — it will be on you. We will remember that you couldn’t be bothered to rise above your petty resentments for something as trivial as saving your country from the enemies of everything you profess to believe in. We forgave you for Monica, Bill, but we won’t forgive you for this.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/paul-slansky-/a-note-to-bill-clinton_b_128755.html
damn right. jeez that pissed me off.
wonder if he’ll redeem himself tonight on the DAILY SHOW.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:27 pmOur stupid endless pointless imperial occupation of Afghanistan? We need to end it now. Same goes for occupied Iraq. Basically, we just need to back up and back track and eliminate all the stupid right-wing deregulations that have occurred under Reagan, Bush I, Clinton and Bush 2. We need to re-regulate our financial markets. We need to dump NAFTA, GATT and WTO and rebuild our tariff walls, so that imported goods from China would cost the same as goods Made in USA. That way, LL Bean could stop selling Chinese communist made goods (about 90% of their sales items now) and go back and sell products made in Maine, made in New England and made in USA.
September 23rd, 2008 at 8:40 pmWe need to export something other than debt and craftily-packaged recycled mortgage paper.
If Bush again will not tell Americans the truth of his disastrous reign of incompetence then it is up to the media to speculate, on the air, as to what this report will say when it does come out.
This report MUST affect the upcoming election. All that this administration, with the help of John McCain, has done is pertinent to John McCain’s intellectual, moral and ethical fitness for office.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:15 pm3. Who lied – it has been in an earlier item on TP that Bush didn’t speak because he didn’t want to negatively impact the McSame campaign.
September 23rd, 2008 at 9:35 pmOBL to Bush “checkmate”
September 23rd, 2008 at 10:02 pmNIE: We’re losing.
September 23rd, 2008 at 11:43 pmthey hate to admit it.
No one can ever win in Afghanistan – not even the Afghans. The place is cursed.
Worst.
President.
EVER.
McCain = Bush
September 24th, 2008 at 3:10 amThrow the bums out. Eight is MORE than ENOUGH!
It would just be too hard to spin right now.
September 24th, 2008 at 7:18 amWho is responsible for the Fannie Mae/Freddie Mac Sub-Prime mandate?
Exactly, GWB and his HUD appointee.
September 24th, 2008 at 12:54 pm