All that World War III talk by the President may have been a tad premature.
A new assessment by American intelligence agencies concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that the program remains on hold, contradicting an assessment two years ago that Tehran was working inexorably toward building a bomb.
I was all set to breathe a sigh of relief over this news, and then I noticed where it came from.
Should conclusions of the US Intelligence Agencies form the basis for our policy toward Iran? Toward ANY country?
These clowns don’t exactly have a track record that fills me with confidence!
The ironic part is that it completely contradicts what the White House and Defense Department have been spinning to us for months now. Is there any agency within the executive branch that an American citizen can believe?
This assessment was the consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, according to the NYT article.
Given that our agencies share intelligence with the EU governments, I assume that Sarkozy in France saw the data the US was using to justify the bellicose rhetoric over Iran’s supposed nuclear ambitions.
I wonder how that data corresponded with what French intelligence was providing, and how much credence our other allies give to the information gathered by US intelligence agencies.
I assume there was also a consensus two years ago that Iran WAS working on a bomb.
If Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, WHY DID IT TAKE FOUR YEARS for our “Intelligence Community” to uncover that information?
And if their conclusion is based on four-year-old information, how reliable is that? Is it safe to believe that Iran’s status today is the same as it was four years ago?
I didn’t think so.