Building on Kevin Drum’s timeline of the administration’s decision to declassify portions of the National Intelligence Estimate, here’s a more complete rendering for those of you trying to get a hold on this. It’s a mini-history of the administration’s political manipulations of this classified document.September, 2002 – The CIA puts together the National Intelligence Estimate, a summary of the intelligence community’s judgment of the Iraq threat. After reading it and seeing that it rebutted a number of the administration’s public claims, Sens. Bob Graham (D-FL) and Dick Durbin (D-IL) ask that a declassified version be made available for the public.
This is a companion discussion topic for the original entry at https://talkingpointsmemo.com/?p=183696