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The New York Times | Editorial
Wednesday 27 September 2006
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It's hard to think of a president and an administration more devoted to secrecy than President Bush and his team.
Except, that is, when it suits Mr. Bush politically to give the public a glimpse of the secrets. And so, yesterday, he
ordered the declassification of a fraction of a report by United States intelligence agencies on the global terrorist
threat.
Mr. Bush said he wanted to release the document so voters would not be confused about terrorism or the war when they
voted for Congressional candidates in November. But the three declassified pages from what is certainly a voluminous
report told us what any American with a newspaper, television or Internet connection should already know. The invasion
of Iraq was a cataclysmic disaster. The current situation will get worse if American forces leave. Unfortunately,
neither the report nor the president provide even a glimmer of a suggestion about how to avoid that inevitable disaster.
Despite what Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and John Negroponte, the director of national intelligence, have tried
to make everyone believe, one of the key findings of the National Intelligence Estimate, which represents the consensus
of the 16 intelligence agencies, was indeed that the war in Iraq has greatly increased the threat from terrorism by
"shaping a new generation of terrorist leaders and operatives."
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