Now this is sounding familiar: The U.N. nuclear monitoring agency presented documents Monday that diplomats said indicate Iran may have focused on a nuclear weapons program after 2003 – the year that a U.S. intelligence report says such work stopped. Iran again denied ever trying to make such arms. Ali Ashgar Soltanieh, the chief Iranian […]
It amazes me how disappointed the Republicans are that the NIE put a damper on their wet dream of a war with Iran: Some Republicans in Congress are second-guessing a government intelligence report that Iran has abandoned its nuclear weapons program. They want a second opinion. The National Intelligence Estimate, released last week, concludes Iran […]
David Kurtz hits the nail on the head: The Administration’s most persistent spin of the new Iran NIE is that it vindicates their position because it shows that Iran did in fact have an active nuclear weapons program in 2003. That’s quite some vindication. What it really means is that faced with two neighbors in […]
Watching Bush’s press conference and it’s obvious he is on edge, but still he lies like crazy. Yesterday we found out he has been lying to this country and the world about Iran’s nuclear weapons program. He is saying that this changes nothing in his assertions because they had a program. Catch that – they […]
And give a Power Point presentation of all these secret nuclear facilities in Iran? In an echo of the intelligence wars that preceded the U.S. invasion of Iraq, a high-stakes struggle is brewing within the Bush administration and in Congress over Iran’s suspected nuclear weapons program and involvement in terrorism. U.S. intelligence and counterterrorism officials […]
Colin Powell has to be getting tired of the flip flopping: On Monday, former Secretary of State Colin Powell told me that he and his department’s top experts never believed that Iraq posed an imminent nuclear threat, but that the president followed the misleading advice of Vice President Dick Cheney and the CIA in making […]
The troubles in the Middle East thickens. Knowing Israels impateince in waiting for the UN to act on things which might affect it’s security, how long will Israel sit there and wait for the UN to go back and forth with Iran on this issue? Source: Reuters By Louis Charbonneau BERLIN (Reuters) – If the […]