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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth
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To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (76271)8/26/2006 8:59:10 PM
From: KLP   of 173976
 
Read carefully, the report notes: However, members of the US House Intelligence Committee argued in their own report released Wednesday that America's weak position with Iran stems from poor intelligence from the CIA and other agencies. The Washington Post writes that the report "fully backs the White House position that the Islamic republic is moving forward with a nuclear weapons program and that it poses a significant danger to the United States. But it chides the intelligence community for not providing enough direct evidence to support that assertion."

"American intelligence agencies do not know nearly enough about Iran's nuclear weapons program" to help policymakers at a critical time, the report's authors say. Information "regarding potential Iranian chemical weapons and biological weapons programs is neither voluminous nor conclusive," and little evidence has been gathered to tie Iran to al-Qaeda and to the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, they say.

The report relies exclusively on publicly available documents. Its authors did not interview intelligence officials. Still, it warns the intelligence community to avoid the mistakes made regarding weapons of mass destruction before the Iraq war, noting that Iran could easily be engaged in "a denial and deception campaign to exaggerate progress on its nuclear program as Saddam Hussein apparently did concerning his WMD programs."

The Post notes that the report was authored primarily by Frederick Fleitz, a former CIA officer who had been a special assistant to former State Department official and current ambassador to the United Nations John R. Bolton, who has espoused a hard line against Iran. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice has since pushed a policy of supporting Europe's direct negotiations with Iran.
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