Iran NIE Is Not A Typical Intel NIE

The Strata-Sphere ^ | 12-04-07 | AJ Strata

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Damn...that is a good one...

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

Thanks for posting this.

[Lancey Howard]

DNI Negroponte surrounds himself with old Clinton State Department hacks, huh?
Negroponte was appointed by Bush. Another nice job, Bush.

[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[pankot]

Anything that comes out of the State Department is BS. Joe McCarthy where are you now that we need you?

[txhurl]

bump!!

[SunkenCiv]

Thanks E.

[CyberAnt]

Well .. when Reid says, “We asked for this report” .. a big red flag went up - and I was wondering if the Clinton leftovers in the CIA had put their heads together to see what they could come up with.

Then I hear Rush say there are suspicions that this report was dredged up in order to keep Bush from attacking Iran.

I don’t think that will stop him.

[Deathmonger]

So why did the White House allow this to be published? It totally confuses the message. Bush looked surprised and blindsided, saying “well, they could restart it”. It was either a lame way to execute a policy change or Bush has no control over the executive branch.

[gonzo]

Yowser - disinformation or pure bullshit. Maybe we’ll learn more on Friday, at a hurry-up press conference, at about 7:30 EST ...................................... FRegards

[FARS]

The State Dept., has gone on record saying their job as diplomats is NOT to promote or encourage any ACTION but to promote discussion and only discussion. This says it all.

The NIE has done just that.

[Wiz]

ping

[nutmeg]

bookmark

[justa-hairyape]

So what has it gained in all this by the logic of U.S. intelligence?

Perhaps, the ability to publicly state that there will be no concessions and nothing will stop them now. Obviously they are able to state this because they have compromised U.S. Intelligence.

[Quix]

i FELT and believe that the Iran ‘estimate’ was a puppet master disinformation effort from the git go.

Just didn’t make sense except from the geopolitical perspective of the globalists.

[johnny7]

Just didn’t make sense except from the geopolitical perspective of the globalists.

The dead give-away was its wording... it sounded like it came from foggy-bottom.

[Bernard]

Its most dramatic conclusion — that Iran shut down its nuclear weapons program in 2003 in response to international pressure

About the same time 150,000+ diplomats from the US Army and the US Marine Corps went into Iraq. The mullahs and Mahmoud are still alive and Saddam is dead. Hmmmmmm....

[Bernard]

IMO, this is push back by liberals trying to stop GW from taking out Iran’s nuke facilities. Problem is this will come back to haunt the dems in the long run.

It occurs to me that the Democrats have not thought this through all the way. Take out New York City with a dirty bomb, and New York State goes from blue to red. Take out Chicago, and Illinois goes from blue to red. and so on and so on and so on...

[Diogenesis]

The State Dept does not care. Never have.