TagsTagsBut ... but ... the NIE said there was nothing to worry about! Alarming Test Results: Iran Could Have Enough Uranium for a Bomb by Year’s End. New simulations carried out by European Union experts come to an alarming conclusion: Iran could have enough highly enriched uranium to build an ...
The Washington Post interviewed Israeli Defense Minister Ehud Barak over the weekend, and he said the Iranians are not only farther along in the development of nuclear weapons than many want to believe, they are also probably running a second secret uranium enrichment program: A Conversation With Ehud ...
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Norman Podhoretz on Stopping Iran: Why the Case for Military Action Still Stands. When I first predicted a year or so ago that Bush would bomb Iran’s nuclear facilities once he had played out the futile diplomatic string, the obstacles that stood in his way were great but they did ...
British intelligence chiefs believe that the CIA was hoodwinked by Iran. British spy chiefs have grave doubts that Iran has mothballed its nuclear weapons programme, as a US intelligence report claimed last week, and believe the CIA has been hoodwinked by Teheran. The timing of the CIA report has also provoked ...
Here’s an interview with Max Boot, on his recent trip to Saudi Arabia and the National Intelligence Estimate. (Hat tip: Contentions.) [Video]
Former UN ambassador John Bolton exposes The Flaws In the Iran Report. Consider these flaws in the NIE’s “key judgments,” which were made public even though approximately 140 pages of analysis, and reams of underlying intelligence, remain classified. First, the headline finding — that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in ...
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Malevolent toad-in-chief Mahmoud Ahmadinejad can’t resist gloating over the National Intelligence Estimate, of course. TEHRAN (Reuters) - Iran’s president declared victory over the United States on Wednesday and the head of a U.N. watchdog said Iran had been “somewhat vindicated” by a U.S. report that it had halted its nuclear ...
The Israelis are not buying the National Intelligence Estimate that says Iran has shelved their nuclear program. Allahpundit has video of Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman’s reaction: Israeli ambassador Dan Gillerman on the NIE.
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A new National Intelligence Estimate has been declassified, with a surprising finding: NIE Report: Iran Halted Nuclear Weapons Program Years Ago. I’m probably not the only one at this point with less than total confidence in American intelligence services; but note that although the report says Iran has “shelved” their program, ...
Here’s terrorism expert Steven Emerson in a rather heated confrontation with former CIA operative Michael Scheuer on the Glenn Beck show, about the meaning of the National Intelligence Estimate. [Video]
I don’t really understand why we need a National Intelligence Estimate to tell us things like this; there’s nothing here that isn’t extremely obvious: Report: Al-Qaida May Use Iraqi Network to Hit Homeland. WASHINGTON - The terrorist network Al-Qaida will likely leverage its contacts and capabilities in Iraq to mount an ...
A House Intelligence Committee staff member has been suspended, and is being investigated as the possible source of the leaked NIE document published by the New York Times: House Intel Chair suspends staff member. Democrats are seething, and demanding that the staffer’s access to classified material be immediately restored. WASHINGTON - Democrats ...
The big news while LGF was down and I couldn’t post anything is that President Bush declassified a key section of that leaked NIE the Dems and media are trumpeting in the latest manufactured scandal—and lo and behold, its conclusions are exactly the opposite of the New York Times’ defeatist ...