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The intelligence agencies of the United States government released a “National Intelligence Estimate” last week about the state of Iran’s nuclear capabilities. In short, they don’t think they exist.
“We judge with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program” opens the report. That damning line has sent great shockwaves across the political establishment.
The liberal set have predictably used the NIE to denounce the Bush Administration’s low-level drive for war with Iran as yet another bungled crusade based on flawed intelligence, a la Iraq. The war drivers have likewise been key to downplay the NIE as much as possible, saying it says a lot of stuff, not all of which makes the Iranians look good.
