National Intelligence Estimate..that Iran is not into the NUKE thing...Comment from TPM...

[KoKo]

(Is Josh saying "Impeachment needs to be ON THE TABLE!" :shrug:)

First, Do No Harm{/b]
12.03.07 -- 6:05PM
By Josh Marshall

I haven't had a chance yet to weigh in on today's news about the IC's apparent conclusion that the Iranians shuttered their nuclear program in 2003. But it's awfully big news. There's a secondary, though still very interesting question, of just why the NIE findings were released at all, and what intra-administration in-fighting might be behind it. But it shows us once again, for anyone who needed showing, that everything this administration says on national security matters should be considered presumptively not only false, but actually the opposite of what is in fact true, until clear evidence to the contrary becomes available. They're big liars. And actually being serious about the country's security means doing everything possible to limit the amount of damage they can do over the next fourteen months while they still control the US military and the rest of the nation's foreign policy apparatus.


http://talkingpointsmemo.com/archives/060142.php

[AlertLurker]

1. And for those who believes this is hyperbole:

"...everything this administration says on national security matters should be considered presumptively not only false, but actually the opposite of what is in fact true, until clear evidence to the contrary becomes available.

White House Reaction to the NIE:
http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/03/world/04irantext.html?_r=2&oref=slogin&oref=slogin
"Today’s National Intelligence Estimate offers some positive news. It confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons. It tells us that we have made progress in trying to ensure that this does not happen.

But the intelligence also tells us that the risk of Iran acquiring a nuclear weapon remains a very serious problem. The estimate offers grounds for hope that the problem can be solved diplomatically — without the use of force — as the Administration has been trying to do. And it suggests that the President has the right strategy: intensified international pressure along with a willingness to negotiate a solution that serves Iranian interests while ensuring that the world will never have to face a nuclear armed Iran.

The bottom line is this: for that strategy to succeed, the international community has to turn up the pressure on Iran — with diplomatic isolation, United Nations sanctions, and with other financial pressure — and Iran has to decide it wants to negotiate a solution.

These people are not just dead wrong (again), they are CRIMINALLY INSANE.

[malaise]

2. This is major news n/t

[HCE SuiGeneris]

3. Yes, we have traitors in the WH

Can we break out the pitchforks yet?

[DCKit]

4. THIS is something they might actually attempt to get to the bottom of.

Screw the treasonous outing of a CIA agent, thwarting their plans for WWIII???? Someone's going DOWN!!!