Posted on 09/24/2006 5:38:53 PM PDT by frankjr
A newspaper report that a U.S. intelligence analysis found that the Iraq war gave rise to a new generation of Islamic radicals and made the overall terrorism problem worse was "not representative of the complete document," the White House said on Sunday.
The New York Times reported that a classified National Intelligence Estimate completed in April said Islamic radicalism had mushroomed worldwide and cited the Iraq war as a reason for the spread of jihadist ideology.
It was the first formal appraisal of global terrorism by U.S. intelligence agencies since the Iraq war began in March 2003 and represents a consensus view of the 16 spy services.
"The New York Times' characterization of the NIE is not representative of the complete document," said White House spokesman Peter Watkins.
He declined to comment on information contained in the classified document.
U.S. intelligence chief John Negroponte said news reports on the NIE characterize "only a small handful" of the conclusions from a broad strategic assessment of global terrorism.
"The conclusions of the intelligence community are designed to be comprehensive and viewing them through the narrow prism of a fraction of judgments distorts the broad framework they create," Negroponte said in a statement.
Negroponte said the analysis found that if the U.S. effort to establish a stable government in Iraq succeeded, jihadists would be weakened and "fewer jihadists will leave Iraq determined to carry on the fight elsewhere."
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The NYT's anti-American s*it is nauseating. Why anyone would give them a cent from now on is beyond me.
Their tactic here is so transparent--they want the White House to comment on a classified document so they can say "Ah HA! YOU just leaked it!"
P.S. Using "leaked" in the loose sense, of course.
NYSlimes....NEVER NEVER SURPRISES ME...THEY ARE A TREASONIST ORGANIZATION....
let's see how many newspapers that carried NYT cherry pick right hand column above the fold bury this rejoinder on p A-18. Phila Inq. is one to check.
Drive by media strikes again.
I damn well hope that the White House sees fit to slam back hard on this.
Yes, and any Freeper or blogger who used "unnamed sources" would be called totally unreliable by the MSM. But it's standard practie by the Times and once so published every hourly news show leads with at the head. Disgusting. Hypocritical. Brainless.
this nyt stuff is always just recycled hit pieces from the past.
Any FReeper who tried to post things using "unnamed sources" would be bald from the massive noogies he would get from other FReepers.
I'm hoping the WH has set the NYT's and the demo's up. They cherry pick a few lines out of the report and create a ruckus without having all the info. the reports comes out in full and completely discredits them.
The White House should not deny the obvious, but clarify it with logic to counter the msm point of view. Of course declaring war on the terrorists and hunting them down will have the effect of drawing them out of their rat holes to defend themselves; and it will also have the effect of enlisting radical muslims everywhere to join in the jihad agaisnt the "infidel". So what? This is to be expected in a war. We are not "creating" terrorists, we are flushing them out their caves, their West-hating wahabbi schools, their radical mosques, their bloodthirsty militias, and everywhere else they hatch out of, and luring them onto the battlefield and killing them.
Oh well, I guess we should expect the liberals and the media to support the islamofacists. They are all subterrianian, slimey insects, banding together to protect the darkness they have in common from being exposed by the light.
let's see if this is carried front page/lead story by the criminal liberal media...somehow I doubt it...
This is a good start and if the majority of the conclusions favor the WH they better get the story out...
I was watching Fox News with my father in law, an Italian immigrant and staunch conservative, late this afternoon.
We were watching the round table and Britt Hume made mention that the rats were running with a tiny portion of the report which made me say, "ah-ha!"
They could have very well blamed cartoons over the incitement of radicalism.
"The New York Times reported that a classified National Intelligence Estimate..."
The NYT is only leaking the self-serving parts of classified documents.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1707457/posts?page=35
"Bush is playing rope-a-dope again. This report was finished in April...the loser 'rats and press think they have Bush in a corner. Wait until he springs a newer, revised report on them...or, better yet, it comes out that this report was not vetted and deemed inaccurate...or that the second half of this report, not seen by the press yet, refutes the conclusions (aren't intel reports supposed to give different sides of the same coin?)."
This just in:
Valerie Plame still outed.
I wonder if the report dealt with the damage that the NYT has caused to the WOT with its leaking of classified information.
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