Little more than a year after U.S. spy agencies concluded that Iran had halted work on a nuclear weapon, the Obama administration has made it clear that it believes there is no question that Tehran is seeking the bomb.
But what about that NIE in 2007 that everyone in the media and our Left said cleared Iran of those dastardly NeoCon charges?
When it was issued, the NIE stunned the international community. It declared that U.S. spy agencies judged "with high confidence that in fall 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program."
U.S. intelligence officials later said the conclusion was based on evidence that Iran had stopped secret efforts to design a nuclear warhead around the time of the U.S. invasion of Iraq.
Often overlooked in the NIE, officials said, was that Iran had not stopped its work on other crucial fronts, including missile design and uranium enrichment. Many experts contend that these are more difficult than building a bomb.
Too bad bloggers without the benefit of fact checkers (but having the ability to read) wondered about these glaring problem with the conclusion.
All part of the plan to get President Obama the Nobel Peace Prize for destroying Iran's nuclear weapons program. Bush would have gotten a Belgian warrant for his appearance at a International Criminal Court trial for doing the same thing, but no matter.
President Bush has left President Obama the tools to take down Iran's nuclear weapons once visible, unless my guess is way off.
