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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A nice start!
Excellent zot announcement.
Looks like you’ve been ZOTTED. About time.
Both actually- at the time, Lebanon was completely under Syrian control and Lebanon’s leading Iran-backed terrorist - the same guy who blew up a barracks of US Marines and tortured a CIA station chief to death in Tehran years ago was hanging out in Damascus with Syrian officials.
Another guy who signed besides Hayden is Negroponte- what do we at FR know about Negroponte?
Negroponte’s the guy who shut down and then classified the Harmony database of documents belonging to the regime of Saddam Hussein- remember Freeper jveritas was translating those documents along with others? And there was some very interesting material in them about Iraqi weapons and materials acquisitions and terrorist groups that was getting far too interesting, so it was shut down, for security reasons. Parts of the Exec branch definitely did not want any further weapons information to be translated by and for the public. If there was no program to worry about after all, why the worry over mere documents?
Now in 2003 and 2004 our own weapons destruction - such as VX - per agreements with Russia suddenly fell far behind schedule. And not just at one destruction site, either. Gee, wonder why.
Do you remember way back when the gods used to occasionally rename the thread into some kind of ZOT related title so everyone could come join in on the fun?
Yes. They still do that on occasion. Depends on the content and title of the original post.
You suck at the internet.
Now that’s a thing of beauty.
Hey, what is the loss of a couple of cities to a few nukes when we are well on our way to reaching the Nirvana of the globalist, socialist, crony capitalist takeover of the whole f’in world?
Probably FSB
Hayden. This lying SOB did everything in his power to deny President Trump valid information and helped misdirect everyone to Hillary's Russia! Russia! Russia! fairytale. He ought to be in prison.
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