CIA analysts willing to ‘go to jail’ to ensure NIE’s release.

[laststeamtrain]

CIA analysts willing to ‘go to jail’ to ensure NIE’s release.

Retired Col. W. Patrick Lang, a former official in the Defense Intelligence Agency, reveals that senior CIA analysts pushed for the NIE’s key judgments on Iran to be released, threatening to speak to the media if they weren’t:

"The “jungle telegraph” in Washington is booming with news of the Iran NIE. I am told that the reason the conclusions of the NIE were released is that it was communicated to the White House that “intelligence career seniors were lined up to go to jail if necessary” if the document’s gist were not given to the public. Translation? Someone in that group would have gone to the media “on the record” to disclose its contents."

http://thinkprogress.org/2007/12/07/cia-analysts-willing-to-go-to-jail-to-ensure-nies-release/

[BOSSHOG]

1. THAT'S WHAT PATRIOTS DO george bush

They stand up for whats right and wrong. Something you have no fucking concept of.

[TahitiNut]

4. Perhaps some Congresscritters should be tutored in this, too.

:grr:

[Rydz777]

9. Right. The lies come at us from all directions. Fed up with it. nt

[Jim__]

2. Pretty strong indication that the bushits were trying to suppress this.

CIA analysts willing to go to jail. We all need to be willing to go to jail to stand up to these assholes.

[villager]

3. Wow. Some actual Americans are still serving in the Federal government!

Who woulda thought?

[greenman3610]

5. HOT SHIT

NOW god damn it, that's patriotism.
Not all of us are in a position to release intelligence,
but all of us can do something. There's no one else
that is going to do it.
whether its calling our congressperson, writing to the
editor, freeway blogging, or just changing the lightbulbs in
our house, driving more carefully and dialing the
thermostat down.

[Bozita]

6. That's the kind of courage needed to take the evil bastards down.

Recommended.

[old guy]

7. In a sane world,

this would bring the idiot in chief down. In our bizzaro world, not a chance. God this is stuff is depressing. Day after day after day and on and on....

[Joe Fields]

8. That would qualify as a "Profile in courage." Rare, these days.

We are grateful to those patriots.

[kestrel91316]

10. Valerie Plame's old friends in the WMD monitoring program

have avenged her at long last.

Give THOSE guys the Presidential Medal of Freedom!!!!!

[Jacobin]

11. These are what are called Patriots.

They will be remembered with Daniel Ellsberg.

It has completely thrown the Cheney administration off their war game and prevented a worldwide calamity.

They should all get the medals of honor (or freedom, or whatever they are called) from Paul Bremer and the other neocons who have besmirched that honor.

[Akoto]

12. Sounds like the intelligence community is turning.

Probably tired of their knowledge being ignored for economic/political gain.