A new intelligence assessment that Iran's nuclear weapons program halted in 2003 utterly contradicts the dire claims made by the war-mongering White House. Full Story »
Posted by Melva Hackney
It falls short of good journalism because it makes two totally unsupported statements. One is in the third paragraph "I do not know how often ... Cheney visited CIA Headquarters ... but I'm told ... " and the last paragraph asking "Will President George W. Bush ... succeed in dismissing this latest NIE ... ". It has some redeeming parts in other paragraphs. One about Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell indicating recently that the key findings of the NIEs would no longer be made public. Another about Sen. Lindsay Graham's comment, "We agree, then, that the Iranians are trying to get nuclear weapons."
