NIE - Why are so many media experts and government officials attacking it?
source: http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2007/12/07/politics/animal/main3590236.shtml
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"It's not the intelligence community's job to "object" to the Iranian program, it's their job to evaluate factual evidence. And the entire declassified portion of the NIE was less than a thousand words long. Nothing got more than a few sentences of emphasis.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe the NIE, but its actual conclusions are straightforward: Iran wants a nuclear bomb; it has the scientific capability to produce a nuclear bomb; it's continuing to enrich uranium; and it might decide to restart its bomb program in the future. But for now, based (apparently) on new intelligence collected earlier this year, the program is halted and there's evidence that international pressure and sanctions might keep it that way."
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This link will take you to the article on this issue. It appears that the Intelligence Community has addressed all the issues that the experts are saying haven't been addressed.
It seems the war drum beat is persisting and getting louder.
You can decide for yourself whether you believe the NIE, but its actual conclusions are straightforward: Iran wants a nuclear bomb; it has the scientific capability to produce a nuclear bomb; it's continuing to enrich uranium; and it might decide to restart its bomb program in the future. But for now, based (apparently) on new intelligence collected earlier this year, the program is halted and there's evidence that international pressure and sanctions might keep it that way."
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This link will take you to the article on this issue. It appears that the Intelligence Community has addressed all the issues that the experts are saying haven't been addressed.
It seems the war drum beat is persisting and getting louder.
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