Is the NIE a LIE?

By Rich Galen

I am a huge fan of America's intelligence officers, who routinely risk their lives, often under dreadful conditions, trying to determine the current state of affairs in states which don't want us to know what their state of affairs might be. Last week the Bush Administration released a portion of a document known as the National Intelligence Estimate -- NIE. Note, it contains the word "Estimate." It is not titled "National Intelligence Certainty." There is always the nagging doubt -- as a former US Secretary of Defense once famously stated -- that "we don't know what we don't know." And when it comes to Iran, we should be very aware that we don't know a great deal...

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