Posted on 05/01/2018 7:34:21 AM PDT by WisconsinRep
Former CIA Director Michael Hayden downplayed on Tuesday Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu's dramatic presentation in which he accused Iran of "brazenly lying" over its nuclear ambitions.
"To the best of my knowledge -- out of government, not getting the briefings -- I think this is fundamentally old news," Hayden told CNN's "New Day."
On Monday, Netanyahu gave a presentation in English in which he claimed Israel has evidence that Iranian officials were "brazenly lying" when they said Iran wasn't pursuing nuclear weapons and that the Islamic Republic is keeping an "atomic archive" at a secret compound.
Hayden told "New Day" the US has known many of Netanyahu's recently announced findings for more than a decade.
"We created a national intelligence estimate in 2007 that said that the Iranians had stopped the weaponization part of their program -- missiles still going on, centrifuges still spinning -- but the actual building of the weapon, that they had stopped in 2003," Hayden said.
He added that the trove of documents and digital records obtained by the Israelis gives "more detail to the plotline that we all knew, that we all agreed, existed."
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The Likud is such a echo chamber of stupidity that they actually believed the dog & pony show yesterday would be effective.
should have used Colin Powell as the presenter
LOL
Having lived in Israel, I trust Bibi far more than nearly any politician here in the USA.
For sure more than any ex-CIA agent who used to work for Obama.
Hayden is admitting that the Kenyanesian Usurper KNEW that Iran was lying.
Fascinating. Can you provide details.
Oh well, if it’s not a surprise and they’ve been lying all along then it’s ok if they’re a thuggish terrorist nation out to destroy us.
Benjamin Netanyahu has more credibility in his pinky finger than the never Trumper dirtbag Mikey Hayden has in his Obama butt-kissing body.
Right. The prime minister of Israel, a decorated war hero, doesn’t know what’s going on with his country’s greatest enemy. Tell me another.
No, they decided to negotiate the current deal we have now which caused Iran to shelve (for now) their nuclear weapons program.
You can disagree with the approach, but to say they did nothing about it is just not true.
Your joking right? Netanyahu has more credibility in his pinkie than you or Hayden. Nice drive by trolling there newbie, now run back to DU.
What they did was to enable the Iranians to advance their nuclear weapons program within a curtain of a sham agreement.
So those that accepted the deal are traitors.
No, Hayden’s the guy who is the fool.
From the WSJ :
The BND...has amassed evidence of a sophisticated Iranian nuclear weapons program that continued after 2003....In a 30-page legal opinion on March 26 and a May 27 press release in a case about possible illegal trading with Iran, a special national security panel of the Federal Supreme Court in Karlsruhe cites from a May 2008 BND report, saying the agency “showed comprehensively” that “development work on nuclear weapons can be observed in Iran even after 2003.
According to the judges, the BND supplemented its findings on August 28, 2008, showing “the development of a new missile launcher and the similarities between Iran’s acquisition efforts and those of countries with already known nuclear weapons programs, such as Pakistan and North Korea”.....In their May press release, the judges come out even more clear [sic], stating unequivocally that “Iran in 2007 worked on the development of nuclear weapons.”
OK. Israel tried to tell the world that Saddam Hussein’s weapons were moved by Russians to Lebanon just prior to our attack. A Iraqi Air Force General concurred. Ignored.
Israel tried to tell the world that Assad had not destroyed his chemical weapons. Ignored, especially by our Deep State and Obama.
They tried to tell the world that Iran was developing nuclear weapons. Ignored, then appeased by doing exactly what was done in North Korea.
There are those within the Israeli Deep State that put socialism before country, just like the socialist agents in our Deep State that do likewise.
Words didn’t work, because the UN makes lite of anything that disclose what is really happening.
Kennedy put Russia’s Cuban missiles on display at the UN, so that the evidence could not be disputed by Russia.
So Israel puts Iran’s nuclear documents and plans on display, but not at the UN. The UN would never allow it. That body holds nothing but disdain for both Israel and the US.
If it were “old news” and they knew it, and Obama knew about it, why then did they still continue with the Iran Deal?
RE: . Israel tried to tell the world that Saddam Hussein’s weapons were moved by Russians to Lebanon just prior to our attack.
I thought he moved them to his fellow Baathist’s country — SYRIA?
If everybody knew, and SIGNED IT ANYWAY, then it means they are ADMITTING TREASON.
They agreed to build Iran into a nuclear power. They did nothing about it. On the basis of that, it’s time to track the money, trace it to the players, and then make the arrests and book the flight to Cuba.
Why is this jihadist still here?
Geostrategy Direct Intelligence Brief 2004:
But over the last few months, U.S. intelligence managed to track the Iraqi WMD convoy to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley.
There really seems to be a strong under current of antisemitism here on FR lately.
1. Other than Iran, no one (credible) is questioning the veracity of Bibi’s presentation.
2. The presentation and supporting documents clearly prove that Iran lied about their nuclear ambitions.
3. The Iran Nuclear Deal was based on now evidently false statements by the Iranians.
4. People who were part of the Obama administration are saying that they already knew that the Iranians were lying to discredit this presentation.
5. If it is true that they knew the Iranians were lying, then the deal was made KNOWINGLY under false pretenses.
6. So the Obama administration lied to the American people and gave the Iranian government BILLIONS to stop the Iranian nuclear program, knowing that the Iranians had no intention of doing so.
Did I miss anything.
Oh, you dirty, filthy anti-Semites? Cram your opinions where the sun don’t shine.
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