Iran's Nukes

NIE report revisited

Anybody remember the National Intelligence Estimate report from a couple of years ago? The one that said Iran was not developing nukes? The one that Saskatchewan's useful idiot (owner of the now defunct Sean in Saskatchewan blog and died in the wool dipper) took as gospel truth?

Well think again, Sean. It would seem German intelligence sources would disagree.

"Simply put, while our (the US) country's intelligence service believed that Iran had abandoned its nuclear bomb program in 2003, Germany's intelligence service was amassing evidence that the Iranian bomb program was ongoing."

This begs the question: Why did the US Intelligence community not know or at least not admit to knowing about Germany's findings?

"It is inconceivable to me that senior officials of our intelligence service were unaware of the BND's evidence and conclusions about Iran's nuclear bomb program. Indeed, if the BND's officials withheld what they knew from our officials that constitutes an act of allied betrayal whose implications for US-German relations are, well, staggering.

On the other hand, if our intelligence officials were aware of the BND's evidence and conclusions, why did we reach the opposite conclusion? Did our analysts judge the BND's evidence to be invalid? Or did they just ignore the BND's evidence because they didn't like it and because our intelligence officials wanted to throw a banana peel under President Bush's feet?"

Will Israel have allies in its quest to destroy Iran's nuclear bomb making capability? I sure hope so.