US - Why were parts of the NIE leaked?

Here's why.

President Bush and his allies had been working for weeks to turn the national debate away from Iraq and its specific and many failures, hoping to focus instead on terrorism and security in general, trusting that doing so would help out Republican candidates in the Nov. 7 elections. They had reason to believe that their tactics were helping them gain a little ground, but the news from the national intelligence estimate threatened to stop them cold.

It wasn't the "news". It was the selectively leaked parts that were the threat. The result?

So on Tuesday, the White House made the only logical move it had available: The president directed National Intelligence Director John Negroponte to release much of the report so that people could see for themselves what the nation's spy agencies are thinking.

You mean decalssify. There you have it. Partisan hacks in the intelligence community, working with the left wing media, are forcing our government to exspose our intelligence to the enemy.

Do you need more proof that the left are a dangerous threat to our democracy?

via Peter