Thursday, September 16, 2004
Intel report: More bad news for Iraq
A classified national intelligence report presented to Bush in late July outlines a very bad future for Iraq:
This report was issued before the recent uptick of violence in Iraq. This report was also issued before General Myers statements on how certain key areas of Iraq are completely out of US/Iraqi government control.
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"There's a significant amount of pessimism," said one government official who has read the document, which runs about 50 pages. The officials declined to discuss the key judgments -- concise statements of intelligence analysts' conclusions -- included in the document.
The intelligence estimate, the first on Iraq since October 2002, was prepared by the National Intelligence Council and was approved by the National Foreign Intelligence Board under acting CIA Director John McLaughlin. Such estimates can be requested by the White House or Congress, but this one was initiated by the intelligence council under George Tenet, who stepped down as director of central intelligence July 9, the government officials said.
This report was issued before the recent uptick of violence in Iraq. This report was also issued before General Myers statements on how certain key areas of Iraq are completely out of US/Iraqi government control.
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