“We really got hoodwinked. My question is, who is behind it?”
Clintonistas at State and the CIA.
That’s what I was thinking.
The shadow government that was left in place as a good will gesture of the Compassionate Conservative administration scores another direct hit with a shot in the back.
Because the president left most of the Clinton worshippers/supporters in place for the last 7 years we have really had 15 years of Clintonistas running the federal bureaucracies.
This NIE report is just more slime from Clintonistas designed to undermine President Bush and to influence government policy.
The president should fire and/or prosecute the three authors of the report but, being a compassionate conservative" he will just take another knife in the back.
Check this out:
"... according to the Wall Street Journal, Thomas Fingar is one of the three officials who were responsible for crafting the latest NIE.
The Journal cites "an intelligence source" as describing Fingar and his two colleagues as "hyper-partisan anti-Bush officials."
But "...roughly four or so months prior to the most recent NIE’s publication, Deputy Director of Analysis Thomas Fingar gave the following testimony before the House Armed Services Committee (emphasis added): Iran and North Korea are the states of most concern to us. The United States’ concerns about Iran are shared by many nations, including many of Iran’s neighbors.
Iran is continuing to pursue uranium enrichment and has shown more interest in protracting negotiations and working to delay and diminish the impact of UNSC sanctions than in reaching an acceptable diplomatic solution.
We assess that Tehran is determined to develop nuclear weapons--despite its international obligations and international pressure.
This is a grave concern to the other countries in the region whose security would be threatened should Iran acquire nuclear weapons."
The above quotes from:
The Weekly Standard
NIE: An Abrupt About-Face
http://www.weeklystandard.com/weblogs/TWSFP/2007/12/nie_an_abrupt_aboutface.asp