Feb 2012: Clapper says it’s “technically feasible” that Tehran could produce a nuclear weapon in one or two years, if its leaders decide to build one, “but practically not likely.”
I just backspaced over a really long and ingenius theory/explanation for part of what’s going on here, but out of fear of the infamous black helicopters swooping down to get me the instant I post this I will simply say: the intel community, for all its problems, WANTS the DNI as a bureaucratic good idea fairy to fail. That is just one of the sources of dysfunction that is playing out. Add personalities/egos, and Murphy to the mix of election year politics and you have a perfect storm of bad...whatever...it’s bad.