This is fundamentally the same thing Bush and Cheney were told way back BI (before Iraq). But not only did they choose to ignore it, they buried it. Since the media were too busy whipping up support for the rush to invasion, no one seemed willing to do any deep digging behind the story. However, this time the intelligence agencies chose to also let the media in on the story and therefore, the usual Bush administration secrecy coverup could not be applied. Still Cheney, Bush and company are in deep denial.

It falls short of good journalism because it makes two totally unsupported statements. One is in the third paragraph "I do not know how often ... Cheney visited CIA Headquarters ... but I'm told ... " and the last paragraph asking "Will President George W. Bush ... succeed in dismissing this latest NIE ... ". It has some redeeming parts in other paragraphs. One about Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell indicating recently that the key findings of the NIEs would no longer be made public. Another about Sen. Lindsay Graham's comment, "We agree, then, that the Iranians are trying to get nuclear weapons."

This is a very important story but I don't know the source well enough to say it is truly "trustworthy". This is clearly a story that is easy to get into a true rant about given the high likelihood that administration officials have known about this report for quite a while in spite of their public statements that contradict the report. In terms of style of presentation the continued use of phrases like "faith-based approach" and the effort to compare the report's release to a birth make the reporting seem too emotional and a little harder to take seriously as high quality journalism.

My husband spent 24 & 1/2 years on active duty in the Navy. I well remember when the 'good news' about Iran broke. Didn't the general public take notice? And why has it taken four years for the media to report the lies of Bush and Cheney about Iran?? Citizens of the US should be very angry over what this administration, and the silence of the media, has done to this country. It will take generations to pay for the mess they have made since 2001. NOTHING can fix or make up for the millions of needless deaths caused by their lies and war mongering.

This is journalism?

The author brings his 27 years of experience as a CIA analyst to bear in a strongly worded - but fair and honest - discussion of the serial misuse of intelligence by this Administration.

The author of this opinion piece vents his prejudices but ignores the facts. Number 1 is that the NIE is not a Bush-Cheney creation, it is a combination of the efforts of 16 agencies. And it is largely produced by career bureaucrats, many of whom predate 2001. Number 2, he fails to note that in 2005 the NIE said Iran was actively pursuing nuclear weapons. So the headline is incorrect in saying that Bush and Cheney did anything fraudulent. That's simply nonsense. Number 3, he ignores the fact that the NIE is not unanimous and that several agencies do not agree with the assessment. This piece should have been edited by the people who run the blog before they allowed it to be posted. Very poor journalism.

As The Who once said: "We won't get fooled again - NO NO!" I think that the current administration is out to dupe "we, the people" again. This time, we will not buy into their obvious lies. I think that the story is sound.

Although a very biased article and full of partisan language that significantly detracts from the power and import of the information, I think it is definitely a product of the time and interesting.

Ray McGovern had many years of experience as a CIA analyst, and he was one of the first to speak out against the misuse and manufacturing of intelligence in the lead-up to the US invasion of Iraq. He appears in Greenwald's film, Uncovered, with a scathing deconstruction of the Bush-Cheney distortions and has written and spoken widely. I have a great deal of respect for his words and have found him highly credible in the past. Further, he possesses the great courage to speak the truth.