Unlike just about ALL of our generals, it seems that senior intelligence officials were willing to go public, ruin their careers and possibly face jail time to get the gist of the 2007 Iran NIE out. That's what retired Colonel Patrick Lang heard through the grapevine:
The "jungle telegraph" in Washington is booming with news of the Iran NIE. I am told that the reason the conclusions of the NIE were released is that it was communicated to the White House that "intelligence career seniors were lined up to go to jail if necessary" if the document's gist were not given to the public. Translation? Someone in that group would have gone to the media "on the record" to disclose its contents.
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