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National Security Archive Posts Docs. Actually Declassified by Administration on Iraq Intel

“Only 14 of the full 93 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush authorized Vice President Cheney’s chief of staff, I. Lewis “Scooter” Libby, to disclose to New York Times reporter Judith Miller has actually been officially declassified, according to a posting [April 7, 2006]on the Web site of the National Security Archive at George Washington University. The estimate has apparently been released in four forms: one, a white paper that purportedly represented the substance of the estimate but actually left out most of the dissents and caveats; second, an abstract that Mr. Libby apparenlty used to brief New York Times reporter Judith Miller on July 8, 2003; third, the July 18, 2003, release by the White House of the “key judgments” section and parts of the dissents; and fourth, a Freedom of Information Act release to the National Security Archive on June 1, 2004, that included two additional pages but left the vast majority of the estimate whited out.”

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