Top CIA agent issues bleak assessment on Iraq
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The US Central Intelligence Agency&#39;s station chief in Baghdad has warned in a classified cable that the situation in Iraq is deteriorating and would not improve any time soon.
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A long-awaited National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq, presented to President Bush by the intelligence community yesterday, outlines an increasingly perilous situation in which the United States has little control and there is a strong possibility of further deterioration, according to sources...
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WASHINGTON - A highly classified National Intelligence Estimate assembled by some of the government's most senior analysts this summer provided a pessimistic assessment about the future security and stability of Iraq.    The National Intelligence Council looked at the political, economic and security situation in the war-torn country and determined - at best - the situation would be tenuous in terms of stability, a U.S...
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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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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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WASHINGTON -- 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 US military can do to improve the political and social situation there, said several military officers and intelligence officials familiar with ...
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U.S. intelligence officials prepared a  report for President Bush in late July presenting a gloomy  outlook for Iraq, saying that at worst the country might  descend into civil war, The New York Times said on Thursday.
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Deep, unresolved tensions between new leaders and senior career officers at the Central Intelligence Agency threaten to set off a rebellion within the agency&#39;s clandestine
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President Bush, determined to put an  optimistic face on deadly conditions in Iraq, said on Tuesday  that the CIA was just guessing when it said the war-racked  country was in danger of slipping into civil war.
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U.S. President George W. Bush's national security adviser has raised serious doubts about Iraqi Prime Minister Nuri al-Maliki's ability to control sectarian violence, The New York Times reported on Tuesday.
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Leading senators expressed concern Sunday about a report that the CIA has secretly moved as many as a dozen unidentified prisoners out of Iraq in the past six months, a possible violation of international treaties.
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President Bush said he nominated Robert Gates to be his next secretary of defense to provide a "fresh perspective" on Iraq, but it's not clear how the former CIA chief will influence administration policy on the war.
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As a military offensive seeks to bring Baghdad from the brink of anarchy, a top Iraqi security officer tried Friday to measure its early stages using the grim logic of a place with daily bloodshed:
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The situation in Iraq is perilous, with Iraqi-on-Iraqi violence surpassing al Qaeda as the most immediate threat to U.S. goals, according to a long-awaited intelligence report, The Washington Post reported on Friday.
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Iraq was scrambling to confirm on Monday whether the most wanted Saddam Hussein aide still on the run had been captured, after a day of government confusion with top officials making contradictory statements.
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High-ranking Republican and Democratic leaders are expressing differing views about a lengthy CIA report issued last week, that concluded there were no weapons of mass destruction in Iraq, before the US-led invasion.
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A report that the CIA secretly transferred detainees out of Iraq for interrogation without notifying the Red Cross drew criticism Sunday from key members of Congress.