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2010.
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| Summary/Abstract |
From their earliest days National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) have had a special, albeit controversial, place in the study of the United States Intelligence Community's analytical products. In its broadest terms, the debate over the significance of NIEs is marked alternately by the Council on Foreign Relations identification of NIEs as the "most authoritative written judgments concerning national security issues,"1 and by the judgment of a panel headed by former Central Intelligence Agency official Richard Kerr-known as the Kerr Group-which concluded in 2004, after looking at intelligence on Iraq, that "historically, with few exceptions, NIEs have not carried great weight in policy deliberations.
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