NIE Report ping.
Posted on 10/07/2009 8:17:28 PM PDT by Shellybenoit
Its interesting that today it was reported that the United States knew about Iran's secret second site to enrich uranium for three years now. In fact the White House has admitted it has been "carefully observing and analyzing this facility for several years."
That isn't even the strange part,it was less than two years ago a National Intelligence Estimate report on Iran's nuclear programs reported with "high confidence" that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. So while while we were reporting that all Iranian Nukes stopped in 2003, we were spying on a second Iranian enrichment plant.
The NIE report gave ammunition to appeasement-minded Democrats and Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad who called the NIE report a "declaration of victory." Worst of all, it killed any hopes for the Bush Administration to get support for tougher sanctions on Iran at the Security Council.
We are also learning that the NIE's judgment puts the U.S. intelligence community at odds with its counterparts in Britain, Germany and Israel, which have evidence to show that Iran resumed its weaponization work after 2003.In fact we are still disagreeing with those allies. Are we right? Or is there people in the US intelligence community trying to protect Iran?
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I was wondering the same thing when the NIE came out with the assessment of the Iranian nuke program. I can’t make sense out of it.
Bump
No, but Obama is
Bush trying to rehab his intel persona, or, providing a head-fake to the next administration so they could clean up the nuke program after entering office.
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