Upcoming NIE on Iraq Likely to be Ugly

by clammyc
Mon Sep 4th, 2006 at 09:40:02 PM EST

Nearly six weeks ago, six Senate Democrats, including Harry Reid, Joe Biden and Edward Kennedy sent a letter to John Negroponte (Director of National Intelligence for those who aren't "in the know"...) urging an updated National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq. For starters, this was long overdue, considering the last one was in 2004, and wasn't too pretty, offering three possibilities in Iraq, ranging from "continued instability" (or "bad") to civil war ("worst").

Of course, since then things have gotten completely out of hand and we are now stuck in that "worst" scenario, even though many officials still have their heads in their asses the sand and deny the obvious. And just three days ago, Negroponte decided to draft an updated NIE.