Posted on 04/22/2008 11:33:19 AM PDT by DrBombbay
Discredited NIE report In 2007, yet another confusing picture was presented to the world. The US intelligence community had appeared to be wholeheartedly, both in public and in many private off-the-record media briefings, behind the George W Bush administration's contention that Iran had a dedicated nuclear weapon research program up and running.
However, in late 2007, the flawed and now largely discredited NIE (National Intelligence Estimate) report, "Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities", was published by the Office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) in Washington and simply discarded years of supposedly hard intelligence.
Tehran, it seemed, had placed its WMD research and development on hold around late 2003, though no one, not agents in Iran, nor the vast resources of the CIA, the DNI, the signals intelligence of the National Security Agency or the spy satellites of the National Reconnaissance Office had noticed this.
(Excerpt) Read more at atimes.com ...
Thar she blows! We’ll know the answer when the IDF greases those Persian Peckerheads.
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