Okay, Israel develops this information on the Syrian nuclear facility. Let's say Iran is outsourcing this to Syria to maintain some deniability. Israel tells the US. The US say hang on a minute, let's check out this intelligence. Israel says, okay, but we're not going to wait long.
Fingar and his fellow anti-Bush fanatics at State, CIA, etc., panic, because they think, this will justify an attack on Iran. So, they check the files, come up with this old info, that some Iranian military types were p-o'ed that the Mullahs shut down their nuclear bomb engineering program. The Fingar Gang conceives the idea that this could derail the inevitable take down of Iran.
In the meantime, Israel takes out the Syrian nuclear facility and the NIE comes out. Ahmadinejad declares victory.
Where am I going wrong?
Looks good to me. The scenario fits the puzzle very well.