So the first batch is available to the public... and eventually more will be released. My biggest issue with this is any document (or group of) when taken out of the bigger picture could be interpreted or construed in many ways... if there were any "home runs" they would have been waved on top of the UN and a much bigger press release regarding them. Additionally any docs that were "embarrassing" to any foreign power would probably have gotten 'lost' in the shuffle.
So I doubt that anyone will get what they were looking for, beyone innuendo and suspicious activities that could be interpreted by the reader to support any theory they are trying to make.
We'll see... but I still think the spooks will keep the good stuff under wraps.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/Conten...1/975brvct.asp
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The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has created a website where it will post documents captured in postwar Afghanistan and Iraq. The website is hosted by the Foreign Military Studies Office Joint Reserve Intelligence Center at Fort Leavenworth and will be updated continuously with new documents.
The first batch of materials, released late Wednesday, includes nine documents captured in connection with Operation Iraqi Freedom and 28 documents previously released on February 14, 2006, in conjunction with a study of those documents conducted by analysts at West Point. Sources on Capitol Hill and within the intelligence community tell The Weekly Standard that hundreds of new documents will be made available in the coming days, including 50-60 hours of audiotapes from the Iraqi regime.
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Materials made public in the first wave of the release will be those least likely to raise objections from the intelligence community and U.S. allies. Negroponte plans to include many of the documents labeled "NIV"--for No Intelligence Value--in this first group of materials.
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Among that next batch may be the approximately 700 documents that served as the foundation for a fascinating study by the Joint Forces Command in Norfolk, Virginia. Analysts from the Institute for Defense Analysis reviewed thousands of documents for that two-year study of the Iraq War from the perspective of Iraqis. Declassified excerpts of their final report were published in a highly illuminating article in the forthcoming issue of Foreign Affairs. And the full report will be published as a book in the coming months.
It is hard to say what, exactly, to expect with the coming release of documents. There will be documents that lend support to those who opposed the war in Iraq and, to be sure, documents that bolster the case for those who supported the war.
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