sentences:  A Government Accountability Office report stated that the Iraqi Government did not meet 11 of the 18 benchmark measures as of August 30, 2007.On September 14, a White House survey reported "satisfactory" progress on 9 of the 18 benchmarks.Lionel Beehner of the nonpartisan Council of Foreign Relations has called the benchmarks "vague because the metrics to measure them are imprecise."