You know how little kids will plug their ears and yell "nah-nah-nah" when you’re telling them something they don’t want to hear?  Well apparently the US intelligence czar John Negroponte is doing the same thing.  According to this piece on the Harper’s Magazine site he is not granting approval for the CIA to do a new national intelligence estimate for Iraq, and the theory is that he doesn’t want one done because he wants to protect the President from a situation like one he had when the last NIE was released in 2004 and promptly leaked to the New York Times.

If true doesn’t this make Negroponte the czar of anti-intelligence?