Newsweek: GOP congressmen are calling for an independent commission to probe the Iran NIE report

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http://www.newsweek.com/id/81215/page/2

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Bush may also reassure the Israelis and Arab allies that the NIE overstated things in letting Iran off the hook. In yet another briefing to angry congressmen Wednesday, Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell conceded that "we could have written parts of it more clearly," according to a senior congressman who was there. The ranking Republican member of the Permanent Select Committee on Intelligence, Rep. Peter Hoekstra, says he's calling for an independent commission to probe the report. "Most of the world looks at it and says it's an embarrassment to the United States because once again the U.S. intelligence community has dramatically changed its position," Hoekstra told NEWSWEEK. And it may well be that Washington must take back its words one more time to prevent the Israelis from acting on their own.

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1. So republicans want to once again alter another CIA report

because Israel wants to launch missiles? What was unclear about the original release?

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2. they call this cherry picking intelligence...don't like the message? investigate

yet they don't give a rats ass who, why, or when we torture someone....the republican party is sick beyond belief.

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3. The intelligence community didn't change its position.

Except to stop reading from President Cheney's script. This is an embarrasment to the US all right but the CIA, etc., is not the source. And they're just making it worse, publicly trying to fix intelligence and facts around the administration's policy.