The intelligence estimate says there is no leader in Iraq who transcends sectarian differences.
This took the form of an unclassified summary of a new National Intelligence Estimate.
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Perhaps Obama was relying on the US's 2007 National Intelligence Estimate about Iran's nuclear weapons program.
Today, however, no sentient being thinks this National Intelligence Estimate's principal finding was accurate.
During his public appearances, Morin criticized the US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program from November.
They put urgency behind it, and sometimes it doesn't uniquely comport with every word of an intelligence estimate.
Kennedy and the other officials testifying did not escape without being grilled on the forthcoming National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq.
The analysis is part of a broader meeting at the White House on Thursday about an upcoming National Intelligence Estimate.
Admiral Mike McConnell, America's director of national intelligence, revived doubts about a much-publicised intelligence estimate on Iran issued in December.
The document in question is the National Intelligence Estimate, a joint effort by all 16 intelligence-gathering agencies in the U.S. government.
The threat assessment comes as the 16 U.S. intelligence agencies prepare a National Intelligence Estimate focusing on threats to the United States.
There is no little irony in Thomas Fingar's parting gift to the nation, a just-released National Intelligence Estimate entitled Global Trends 2025.
America's controversial National Intelligence Estimate, made public in December, said that Iran had indeed run a weaponisation programme but seemed to stop it in 2003.
The just-released unclassified Key Judgments of a still-secret National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) confirm that Iran was pursuing nuclear weapons as recently as 2002 or 2003.
Ambassador Sawers says the U.S. intelligence estimate, that said Iran halted a nuclear weapons program back in 2003, made it tougher to agree on more punishing steps.
Indeed, scarcely anyone could be found in those days who dissented from the assessment offered with quote high confidence by the National Intelligence Estimate, known as NIE, of 2005.
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It is part of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iran that also cautions that Tehran still could develop a bomb as early as 2010 if it decided to do so.
The request for funding came in the same period in which the Administration was coming to terms with a National Intelligence Estimate, released in December, that concluded that Iran had halted its work on nuclear weapons in 2003.
The aide suggested that Warner's recommendation was timed to coincide with the National Intelligence estimate because it gives the White House a position it might be willing to accept -- that the 5, 000-troop cut might be palatable to Bush.
Durbin wrote CIA Director George Tenet Tuesday, as well as Senate Intelligence Chairman Bob Graham, D-Florida, and ranking Republican Richard Shelby, R-Alabama, asking that a the CIA put together a so-called "National Intelligence Estimate, " an authoritative written judgment on national security regarding Iraq.
Meanwhile, the intelligence community issued its estimate of the situation in Iraq, and the verdict is bleak, and expensive.
At the time of the Cuban missile crisis, the combined estimate was unanimity in the intelligence service that there were no Soviet warheads in Cuba at the time of the missile crisis.
People do remember of course 1996 when Mr Aldrich was abducted and murdered by terrorists so there are people of such evil intent and we can't under-estimate that but we have no intelligence that would substantiate the report that's in today's newspaper in that regard.
To run simulations, Guillermo Owen of the Naval Postgraduate School in Monterey, California, uses intelligence data from the US Air Force to estimate on a 100-point scale the importance a wanted man attaches to his likes (fishing, say) and priorities (remaining hidden or, at greater risk of discovery, recruiting suicide-bombers).
Kennedy believes the intelligence community's leaders are "dragging their feet" on producing a new estimate.
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