News you can't use....just like the regular stuff

Gen. Pervez Musharraf, President of Pakistan becomes the first sitting president to appear on the Daily Show..... and comes off as a pretty funny guy, although a shameless self-promoter. But we already knew that didn't we? I mean come on, he came to power through a coup - the ultimate in self-promotion.

The White House releases (just) 3 pages of the National Intelligence Estimate causing such a kafuffle in DC these days. These estimates are usually 100s of pages long, so three pages might not be representing the whole truth....
Here's an excerpt however giving the reasons for increasing radicalization:
"(1) Entrenched grievances, such as corruption, injustice, and fear of Western domination, leading to anger, humiliation, and a sense of powerlessness;
(2) the Iraq 'jihad;'
(3) the slow pace of real and sustained economic, social, and political reforms in many Muslim majority nations; and
(4) pervasive anti-U.S. sentiment among most Muslims -- all of which jihadists exploit."

The last time the White House released a NIE doc it was a hastily assembled (3 weeks instead of 4 months) report on Iraq's WMD's put together not by the CIA by a "special" intelligence branch serving under Cheney (see Frontline documentary).