As you know, there were two National Intelligence Estimates made public this year on Iraq.
It also was, and still is, the conclusion in our own National Intelligence Estimate.
That unusually firm prediction was made in a National Intelligence Estimate.
National Intelligence Estimates represent the consensus view of 16 agencies, and usually take several months to produce.
Do you know what I said in my National Intelligence Estimate?
There was no National Intelligence Estimate on terrorism between 1995 and 9/11.
The National Intelligence Estimate predicts terror violence will get worse in the years ahead.
National Intelligence Estimates provide a consensus of the 16 agencies that make up the intelligence community.
In the 2004 National Intelligence Estimate, civil war was a worst-case scenario.
The National Intelligence Estimate is noticed in the Congress, for example.