Posted on 08/11/2012 10:27:09 AM PDT by Eleutheria5
White House spokesman Jay Carney sought to reassure Israel on Friday when he said in a press briefing that the U.S. has real-time information on the Iranian nuclear program.
“We have ‘eyes’ inside the nuclear facilities and we will know in real time when and if Iran decides to cross the threshold and develop nuclear weapons,” Carney said, according to a report by Channel 10 News.
Carney’s remarks were made in response to recent assessments in Israel, especially those of Defense Minister Ehud Barak, according to which the Americans understand that the Iranian threat is becoming an increased concern.
“The president remains committed to preventing Iran from obtaining nuclear weapons,” he was quoted as having said.
“We are leading an international move to enforce the sanctions, which even the president of Iran has called the most severe sanctions ever imposed on a country,” Carney continued. “Hardly a week goes by in which we do not worsen the sanctions.”
He reiterated that Israel and the U.S. are coordinated on the Iranian nuclear issue, saying, “We share Israel’s concerns. That’s why we are directing this concentrated and unprecedented effort to cause the regime in Tehran to change its behavior.”
A report in Ha'aretz on Thursday, citing American officials, said that a new U.S. report indicates that Iran has made a great deal of progress in its nuclear program in recent months.
According to the report, President Barack Obama has seen the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) report, prepared by U.S. government intelligence groups.
(Excerpt) Read more at israelnationalnews.com ...
They want to reassure Jewish and Christian voters who care about Israel, with a wink and a nod at left wing Jewish voters who do not. Reassure Israel? We are beyond being reassured by this administration. What they lack in stupidity, they make up in venality.
What he really meant was Iran has eyes inside the WH.
More treason.
“Someone is going to die due to these types of pronouncements.”
This administration does not care. To them foreign agents that work for us are nothing but political tools to be abandoned if needed for Obama’s political ambition.
If the US Army released information like this, the individual that released it would be brought up on charges of treason.
Obama is truly a loathsome creature.
Leak leak leak .... drip drip drip
Maybe we “had” eyes inside Iranian nuke plants
What an incredibly arrogant stupid comment for a WH spokesman to make
Used to have.
NOFORN is a Caveat, not a classification.
you are correct - thanks
Could it be that those eyes were born in Kenya?
It's a whole bunch much worse than that. The WH just exposed the fact that one (or more) of the people working in Iran's nuclear facilities is a US spy. That's something that Iran will take very seriously. I have to wonder just how long our operative(s) will still be alive after this revelation.
wtf? Why can’t these effing idiots keep their holes closed??
Does Carney have the security clearance to know this information ?
He is after just the press pie hole...
Obama should terminate him immediately....( not literally ) OK one can hope....
A wise man knows whatever he says, and doesn’t say everything that he knows. A fool says whatever he knows, and doesn’t know everything that he says. A press agent says what he’s told to, everything that he’s told to, and nothing else.
On the other hand... Let’s say we DON’T have a source inside the Iranian Nuke program. The Iranians are going to go nuts looking for a mole and may end up terminating some very good people.
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Almost as much fun as Madelline Albright losing unsecured laptops containing contact information for HUMINT operatives in Eastern Europe....And then announcing the fact! (Otherwise, they'd likely just have been wiped and re-sold instead of becoming winning lottery tickets.)
Does anyone have video of this.
well this should get several people killed..guess we know who the leaker is.
Not really news. As soon as they reach a higher level of enrichment the radioactivity cannot be effectively shielded. Monitors from several thousand miles away can pick it up...thus knowing exactly when they are reaching the higher levels.
Not treason. It’s physics.
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