The NIE has taken half a year to produce because it's being held to the highest analytic standards, Kolton said and because it represents the best work of all 16 U.S. spy agencies not because of political considerations.
"The National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq is well under development, " according to Chad Kolton, spokesman for outgoing U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte.
According to Chad Kolton, a spokesman for the FBI's Terror Screening Center, there wasn't enough hard evidence to back up AbdulMutallab's father's fears, and so he wasn't placed on the terror list.