[mburbank]

Okay, having read into this a wee bit further, I'm confused.

The NIE is a document written expressly for the president. As far as I can tell, it is a one page document, and while they may have been briefed on it's contents, the Senate doesn't have access to it.

The Kerry campaign wants it released so people can see what it said, and the white hiouse is refusing, just as they did prior to the leaking of the NIE titled "Ossama Bin Laden determined to attack inside United States". After the info became public, their argument that the NIE in question said nothing about Bin Laden's interest in attacking inside the United states seemed... somewhat thinner.

The NIE in question is not the 93 page back-up paper. It is a one page summary.

Can anybody sort this out for me? And I don't mean their opinion, I mean can anyone find a source that says who's talking about what?