Bush Administration will keep secret 'grim' Afghanistan report quiet until after election

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John Byrne
Published: Tuesday September 23, 2008

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A secret US intelligence report which says the political and military situation in Afghanistan is "grim" will be withheld from the public until after the election, a new report says.

Intelligence officials are finishing up the National Intelligence Estimate on Aghanistan, according to ABC's Brian Ross, "but there are 'no plans to declassify' any of it before the election," an official said.

Keeping the intelligence report under wraps would likely help Sen. John McCain (R-AZ). McCain has focused on what he sees as the success of the Iraq "surge," in which the US added troops to lessen violence. Attention to problems in Afghanistan would put the spotlight on President Bush's failures, which might rub off on the Republican presidential nominee.

[C_U_L8R]

1. worst kept secret ever

perhaps the press are the only ones who haven't figured it out yet

[burythehatchet]

4. SECOND worst; psst

McCain was a POW!!!!!

[ReadTomPaine]

2. Now would be a good time for whistleblowers and troops to step up to the plate...

and tell us the situation anyway.

[Supersedeas]

3. politics before national security -- it's the Bush Rove Condi way

[mwb970]

5. There was never much hope for us in Afghanistan anyway.

So many outside powers have come in, failed, and left. The British, the Russians, now us. We don't understand the country or the culture. The people we are fighting live there. How can we prevail? What would victory in Afghanistan look like? Now that we don't care about bin Laden, why are we even there?