Thursday, December 09, 2004
Iraq: New Secret CIA Appraisal
Tuesday, the Times reported another CIA report from Baghdad, supposedly secret. (The leak proofing of the Agency does not seem to have helped. It judged that the security situation was bad and likely to get worse. The main impediments were the lagging ability of the Iraqi security forces and the inability of the government to get economic development going. It has evoked a rejoinder from the Ambassador who says we are doing much better than this estimate. But in military and intelligence circles there is a lot of support for the individual who composed it upon leaving his position in Baghdad. The American government continues on the surface to be upbeat about everything.
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