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Parts of a National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq were leaked to the New York Times last Sunday.  The leaks attracted  attention:

"The Iraq conflict has become the "cause célèbre" for jihadists,
breeding a deep resentment of U.S. involvement in the Muslim world and
cultivating supporters for the global jihadist movement."

Bush countered by declassifying a 3 page summary of the report (Read the declassified NIE report (.pdf)) : 

"Should jihadists leaving Iraq perceive themselves,
and be perceived, to have failed, we judge fewer fighters will be
inspired to carry on the fight."

In the end it's a zero sum report.  Daniel Henninger thinks we're still not getting our billions worth from from spooks:

After the White House released the
NIE summary late Tuesday afternoon, reporters reading it for the first
time on the Web undoubtedly kept hitting the Page Down button on their
PCs. This is it!? Three crummy pages that anyone could have boiled down
from a Foreign Affairs "Wither Iraq?" symposium.

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