The NIE's Pre-Emptive Strike
ATHENS - There is something surreal in the symmetry of the U.S. intelligence community’s pre-emptive strike against President George W. Bush. It’s as if the intelligence community is acknowledging the old truth that generals always fight a war on the basis of principles learned in the previous one. Burned by its creative ambiguity in the run-up to the Iraq war, the intelligence community now seems to be trying to prevent itself from being used to justify another unnecessary war.

