As former Vice Chairman of the National Intelligence Council and AT contributor Herbert E. Meyer suggested, Congressional conservatives are demanding an investigation of the NIE report. While Herb suggested Intelligence Committee members review the underlying classified report on which the findings were based, the current effort seeks a broader inquiry. Robin Wright and Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post report:Senate Republicans are planning to call for a congressional commission to investigate the conclusions of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran as well as the specific intelligence that went into it, according to congressional sources.The move is the first official challenge, but it comes amid growing backlash from conservatives and neoconservatives unhappy about the assessment that Iran halted a clandestine nuclear weapons program four years ago. It reflects how quickly the NIE has become politicized, with critics even going after the analysts who wrote it, and...(Read Full Post)