A senior administration official who accompanied Bush on his six-nation trip to the Mideast stated of Bush "he told the Israelis that he can't control what the intelligence community says, but that [the NIE's] conclusions don't reflect his own views" about Iran's nuclear-weapons program. He  would discuss intelligence matters only on the condition of anonymity, according to Newsweek


I'm wondering why we even need National Intelligence Estimate. If Bush is so pro war and his "own views" overrides facts, it seems like a waste of time and money to me. As mentioned on The Carpetbagger What I can’t quite wrap my head around is the notion that the president has “views” that differ significantly from his own intelligence reports. If the NIE on Iran is based on available evidence, and Bush has decided to “all but disown” the NIE, what, exactly, serves as the basis for his “views”?

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