Another Perspective.

Heres a thought on the motivations behind the NIE. The intelligence community has seen how the Bush administration operates. They come to a conclusion and then seek out evidence that supports their position and ignore anything that says otherwise. Then after the resulting flawed idea comes toits inevitable result the administration casts about for someone to blame. My guess is that these guys still remember how heads rolled after the 9/11 an Iraq failures of the intelligence community and are making an effort to protect their jobs by being forthright with the American people.