It is becoming quite clear the NIE is not held in high regard in across the broader intelligence community – including those elements in Europe: 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 […]

Let’s face it, journalism majors are not prepared to grasp or understand complex technologies – especially those on the cutting edge of humanity’s current technology base. This is blatantly apparent in this story about the Iran NIE. Begin with the basic conclusion of the article, apparent in its title: How one man eased nerves on […]

While the latest NIE on Iran tries to come to determine the motivation and goals of Iran, Americans are trying to discern the same about authors of the NIE. We know some of them were very much against the Bush policy and were hang overs from the pre 9-11 days under Clinton, when a lot […]

The Washington Post ran an intriguing article of ‘reconciliation’ between the war doubters and war optimists (myself being in the latter camp of course). Being authored by one member from each camp the article demonstrates the political reconciliation possible in America, now that General Petraeus’ Surge as been able to create stability in much of […]

As the SurrenderMedia tries to shore up the NIE on Iran’s nuclear, which is failing to convince anyone of import that Iran is now cuddly safe, they have gone well into science fiction and exaggeration. Everyone knows that T=three State Dept Amigos who authored this propaganda stunt were anti-Bush hangovers from the Clinton administration. And […]

Most people are now well aware of the games the left is playing to stage media events like the NIE on Iran’s nuclear threat. The news is all about the first sentence (they stopped their weapons design program in 2003) as if Americans don’t go on to read the rest of it (they had a […]

Rasmussen has a poll out showing only 18% of the country buys the liberal media spin on the NIE on Iranian nukes (H/T Drudge). Even most liberals don’t buy it! Just 18% of American voters believe that Iran has halted its nuclear weapons program. The latest Rasmussen Reports national telephone survey found that 66% disagree […]

Oh boy, are the sparks (and the pink slips and possibly the indictments) going to be flying soon in DC! Israel is hosting a meeting to present to the Joint Chiefs of Staff their hard evidence Iran is still working on nuclear weapons: Disappointed after failing to make their case on Iran and influence the […]

Addendum: Clarice Feldman and I have been bantering in emails over this connection between Plame and the authors of this NIE and one topic I wanted to emphasize was the timing of this phone call right before her speech that Fitzgerald and Waxman were colluding on some dirt on Bush and Cheney. First off, the […]

The recent NIE on Iran’s nuclear weapons program (the NIE does confirm the program exists BTW, the question is whether it is still suspended from 2003) is turning out to be a huge political debacle. The LA Times is now noting that folks on the left are siding with Bush instead of the NIE! Iran […]