Word: nies
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...After Republican Pat Roberts, the powerful Intelligence Committee Chairman, decided to go along with the measure, the Senate unanimously approved a defense spending amendment by Democratic Sen. Edward Kennedy ordering up the NIE. But after the senators' prodding, Director of National Intelligence (DNI) John Negroponte plans to start drafting an NIE right away - without waiting for enactment of legislation calling for it. DNI spokeswman Judi Emmel tells TIME Negroponte agrees that a new NIE is needed and will be drafted. "The DNI believes it is timely to prepare an updated estimate, given a variety of pressing questions concerning Iraq...
...Fingar proudly allowed that he had been "the dissenter on a large number of things" while he was director of intelligence at the State Department. The experience of being in the minority on such hot-button reports as the pre-war estimate, Fingar said, has helped him reform the NIE drafting process. "That has informed the way in which we have approached artificial consensus or premature consensus," said Fingar, now the Deputy DNI for Analysis...
Libby's testimony was disclosed in a filing last week by the prosecutor probing the leak of the identity of former CIA officer Valerie Plame, Wilson's wife. The President has the power to declassify unilaterally. The White House later published parts of the NIE, though some of the findings had been disputed by members of the intelligence community. "It was in the public interest that this information be provided," press secretary Scott McClellan said. The filing pointed out that Bush did not know about the leaking of Plame's name. Lawyers involved in the case say the testimony increases...
...After we liberated Iraq, there was questions in people's minds about the basis on which I made statements, in other words, going into Iraq," Bush said at Johns Hopkins University's School of Advanced International Studies (SAIS), in Washington. "So I decided to declassify the NIE for a reason. I wanted people to see what some of those statements were based on. I wanted people to see the truth and thought it made sense for people to see the truth.And that's why I declassified the document...
...knowledgeable officials told TIME on Saturday that Bush had, indeed, unilaterally declassified the parts of the NIE following criticism from Wilson, without using the standard declassification process that the White House went through later. The officials said the President told Vice President Cheney that the excerpts should be provided to the press, but had played no role in the actual leak to Judith Miller of The New York Times. "The conversation between the President and the Vice President was only about declassifying," a senior administration official said. "The President made the executive decision, and still believes it was the right...