Posted on 02/13/2008 3:58:05 PM PST by Flavius
Edited on 02/14/2008 6:33:33 AM PST by Admin Moderator. [history]
WASHINGTON (AFP) - Iran still possesses the capacity to produce nuclear weapons even though it may have stopped its atomic arms development program, a senior US intelligence official said Wednesday. ADVERTISEMENT
Thomas Fingar, deputy US director of national intelligence for analysis, told a Congressional hearing that the Islamic republic "continues to develop" capabilities that could be swiftly adopted for production of nuclear weapons.
"We judge it has the technical and industrial capability to produce nuclear weapons," he told the House of Representatives armed services committee which held the hearing to make a global security assessment.
(Excerpt) Read more at http://news.yahoo.com/s/afp/20080213/pl_afp/usirannuclearpolitics_080213211526
Israel your up to bat!
They can’t hug their islamo-facist, future homicide bombing children with nuclear arms!
Thomas Fingar has reversed himself form the earlier NIE.
“Iran still possesses the capacity to produce nuclear weapons even though it may have stopped its atomic arms development program, a senior US intelligence official said Wednesday.”
Oh...OK.
A small part of me that qualifies as evil kinda hopes that Iran’s first attempt to nuke someone is directed at Russia.
Didn’t these so-called intelligence people tell us a few months ago they did not?
If McCain made a pledge to completely gut the State Dept. and the left over Clinton hacks in the CIA, I might consider voting for him.
These are the morons who leak all our plans to the NY Times etc.
for cross reference: http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1969964/posts
The chances of Iran-Pakistan are greater than zero.
The chances of Iran-Pakistan are greater than zero.
God help us if Barack HUSSIEN Obama wins the WH and wants to negotiate with these thugs.
MI Ping
Nie! nie,nie,nie,nie I’m not listening to you nie,nie,nie ... (as heard at the State Department)
This is the guy who was one of the prime authors of the recent NIE that judged Iran stopped development on a weapon.
Fingar also is the chief intelligence political operative in the intelligence community that is attempting to undermine Bush at every turn. He is literaly the featured character in Ken Timmerman's "Shadow Warriors" that analyzes the forces in our government out to destroy the Bush Presidency.
And 3 weeks ago, it was supposedly all bull. Can somebody get on the same page?
Iran? Nukes?
Who cares? Our Gubmint is busy holding hearings to determine who injected whose buttocks with what and when.
Nailing a private citizen like Roger Clemens is more important than foreign enemies.
We do not have sufficient intelligence to judge confidently whether Tehran is willing to maintain the halt of its nuclear weapons program indefinitely while it weighs its options, or whether it will or already has set specific deadlines or criteria that will prompt it to restart the program.
Iran halted the program in 2003 primarily in response to international pressure indicates Tehran’s decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic, and military costs. This, in turn, suggests that some combination of threats of intensified international scrutiny and pressures, along with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security, prestige, and goals for regional influence in other ways, might—if perceived by Iran’s leaders as credible—prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program
We assess with moderate confidence that convincing the Iranian leadership to forgo the eventual development of nuclear weapons will be difficult given the linkage many within the leadership probably see between nuclear weapons development and Iran’s key national security and foreign policy objectives
We assess with moderate confidence that Iran probably would use covert facilities— rather than its declared nuclear sites—for the production of highly enriched uranium for a weapon
We assess with high confidence that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity eventually to produce nuclear weapons if it decides to do so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937909/posts
We do not have sufficient intelligence to judge confidently whether Tehran is willing to maintain the halt of its nuclear weapons program indefinitely while it weighs its options, or whether it will or already has set specific deadlines or criteria that will prompt it to restart the program.
Iran halted the program in 2003 primarily in response to international pressure indicates Tehran’s decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic, and military costs. This, in turn, suggests that some combination of threats of intensified international scrutiny and pressures, along with opportunities for Iran to achieve its security, prestige, and goals for regional influence in other ways, might—if perceived by Iran’s leaders as credible—prompt Tehran to extend the current halt to its nuclear weapons program
We assess with moderate confidence that convincing the Iranian leadership to forgo the eventual development of nuclear weapons will be difficult given the linkage many within the leadership probably see between nuclear weapons development and Iran’s key national security and foreign policy objectives
We assess with moderate confidence that Iran probably would use covert facilities— rather than its declared nuclear sites—for the production of highly enriched uranium for a weapon
We assess with high confidence that Iran has the scientific, technical and industrial capacity eventually to produce nuclear weapons if it decides to do so.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1937909/posts
They are all simply on drugs...
Yes he wnet back to his original position which was the correct one.
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