The National Security Archive at George Washington University is
suing the Central Intelligence Agency. They want an expedited release of the damning report that the Bush administration is repressing.
Washington, D.C., 20 October 2004 - The National Security Archive today filed suit against the Central Intelligence Agency ("CIA") seeking the expedited processing and release under the Freedom of Information Act ("FOIA") of the 2004 Iraq National Intelligence Estimate ("NIE). As the New York Times reported on September 16, 2004, the NIE spells out a dark assessment of prospects for Iraq. The estimate outlines three possibilities for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst case being developments that could lead to civil war.
The Archive is seeking judicial intervention to require the CIA to expedite its processing of a FOIA request for the NIE. "This is a textbook case for expedited processing," said the Archive's General Counsel, Meredith Fuchs. "There is a tremendous public interest in the situation in Iraq and the U.S. commitment to Iraq, the news media have focused significant attention on the NIE, and members of the Senate Intelligence Committee have requested that the NIE be made public to help with the formulation of policy."
For those of you who don't know the National Security Archive (the
other NSA), they do awesome, smack-down work.
Diary about this report which fell off of the RECOMMEND list is here.
The L.A. Times column from 2 days ago on this report is here: The 9/11 Secret in the CIA's Back Pocket