CIA provides bleak assessments of Iraq
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The departing CIA station chief in Iraq and another CIA official who visited the country recently have painted a pessimistic picture of the situation in the war-torn country in classified briefings to their superiors, The New York Times reported.
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A US intelligence report on Iraq describes a perilous situation in which the US has little control of the violence.
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American investigators working with Iraqis acknowledge that many criminal inquiries have yielded mixed results.
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President Bush, determined to put an  optimistic face on deadly turmoil in Iraq, said on Tuesday that  the CIA was just guessing when it said the country was in  danger of slipping into civil war.
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A classified cable sent by the Central Intelligence Agency&#39;s station chief in Baghdad has warned that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and may not rebound any time soon, according to government officials.
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Along with a recent spike in deadly violence in Iraq, a classified US government report paints a bleak picture of Iraq&#39;s immediate future.
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The Bush administration is haunted by the history of intelligence blunders about Saddam Hussein's supposed weapons of mass destruction as the United States tries to document that Iran is providing lethal help to Iraqi fighters.
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Many Arabs on Thursday interpreted an American advisory panel's bleak assessment of President Bush's Iraq policies as proof of Washington's failure in the Middle East.
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The U.S. Senate is tightening its  scrutiny of intelligence reports on Iran, North Korea, China  and other potential trouble spots in hopes of avoiding the  intelligence lapses that led to the 2003 invasion of Iraq,  congressional officials said on Sunday.
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The chief of intelligence for the Marine Corps in Iraq recently filed an unusual secret report concluding that the prospects for securing that country's western al Anbar province are dim and that there is almost nothing the U.S. military can do to improve the political and social situation there,...
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U.S. intelligence experts painted a gloomy picture of Iraq, saying in a report seen on Friday that sectarian bloodshed had surpassed the threat from al Qaeda and warning of the consequences of a rapid U.S. withdrawal.
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The U.S. intelligence community has failed to provide policymakers with  a clear understanding of the Iraq insurgency, the role of militias or the level of violence in that country, according to the Iraq Study Group.
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A US intelligence examination of the effects of the Iraq war reportedly says it is making the threat of terror worse.
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Ryan C. Crocker, the U.S. ambassador to Iraq, gave Congress an assessment that left unmentioned some of the most troubling developments of the past nine months.
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A U.S. intelligence report prepared for President Bush in July offered a gloomy outlook for Iraq through the end of 2005, with the worst scenario being a deterioration into civil war, government officials said on Thursday.
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Months before the invasion of Iraq, U.S. intelligence agencies predicted that it would be likely to spark violent sectarian divides and provide al-Qaeda with new opportunities in Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report released yesterday by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence. Analysts...
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Struggling to defend its Iraq policy, the Bush administration in a 23-page classified report points to limited progress being made by the U.S.-backed government in Baghdad, U.S. officials told The Associated Press on Tuesday.