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To: bentway who wrote (543262)	1/12/2010 2:55:32 PM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1575357

if it was a US nuclear scientist you would be cheering

To: bentway who wrote (543262)	1/12/2010 8:09:38 PM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1575357

The GOP would rather feed the military-industrial complex trillions of dollars rather than fight wars in smarter ways. This is the problem with the GOP. They think leaders like Palin are good leaders. They think Joe the Plumber is a good leader. I think they all need to go back to school and focus on upping their intellectual game. The dumbing down of the GOP is one reason why they are no longer capable of running this country. They are simply too uneducated.

To: bentway who wrote (543262)	1/23/2010 11:22:24 AM
From: Brumar89	3 Recommendations Respond to of 1575357

Coming Around On Iran Bush has been out of office long enough for some of the liberals in the media and the intel agencies to admit the 2007 NIE was bull. IMO the NIE story about Iran halting its nuclear program was a lie to begin with - a lie intended to tie Bush's hands (a lie that harmed the security of the nation and the world.) Mark Hosenball U.S. intelligence agencies are quietly revising their widely disputed assertion that Iran has no active program to design or build a nuclear bomb. Three U.S. and two foreign counterproliferation officials tell NEWSWEEK that, as soon as next month, the intel agencies are expected to complete an "update" to their controversial 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, which concluded that Tehran "halted its nuclear weapons program" in 2003 and "had not restarted" it as of mid-2007. The officials, who asked for anonymity to discuss sensitive information, say the revised report will bring U.S. intel agencies more in line with other countries' spy agencies (such as Britain's MI6, Germany's BND, and Israel's Mossad), which have maintained that Iran has been pursuing a nuclear weapon. Yet two of the U.S. sources caution the new assessment will likely be "Talmudic" in its parsing. They say U.S. analysts now believe that Iran may well have resumed "research" on nuclear weapons--theoretical work on how to design and construct a bomb--but that Tehran is not engaged in "development"--actually trying to build a weapon. "The intelligence community is always reluctant to make a total retreat because it makes them look bad," says the third American. This distinction between research and development is unlikely to satisfy hardline critics, who say the intel agencies, burned for overestimating Saddam Hussein's weapons-of-mass-destruction program, have underplayed Iran's bomb-building efforts. But the U.S. officials insist it's an accumulation of fresh intelligence, not political or diplomatic pressure, that prompted the reconsideration. Revelations that Iran excavated a secret underground nuclear-enrichment facility near Qum may have heightened alarm about Tehran's intentions. America and its allies, say the U.S. and foreign officials, have also been poring over documents that purport to show Iranian research on a "neutron initiator," a device most often used for bombs--not electricity, which the Iranians insist is their nuclear program's goal. While the update will cause a stir in Washington, it's unlikely to have an immediate impact on the White House's Iran policy. The administration already bases its cautious diplomatic approach on the assumption that Iran has, in fact, been pursuing a bomb, despite intel agencies' reservations. Some officials also warn it's still possible that the update--a highly classified, on-again, off-again proposition for months--could be spiked at the last moment if the often-fractious intel bureaucracy can't agree on what it should say. The office of the national intelligence director, which would issue the update, had no comment. blog.newsweek.com Wouldn't it be great to have an intel agency that didn't play politics.

To: bentway who wrote (543262)	1/23/2010 11:23:22 AM
From: Brumar89	Respond to of 1575357

Only a liberal fool would think whoever took out that Iranian nuke expert was working for the US. More likely the Israelis.