U.S. intelligence agencies now suspect that Iran never halted work on its nuclear arms program in 2003, as stated in a national intelligence estimate made public three years ago, U.S. officials said.
Differences among analysts now focus on whether the country's supreme leader has given or will soon give orders for full-scale production of nuclear weapons.
What? Who'd have guessed that?
Just two short years later, the 2007 NIE is to become history. But it served it's purpose in effectively stopping the Bush administration from contemplating direct action during his term of office. So now it's time to elevate the 2007 footnotes to the main body.
