No Bomb in Iran
Irancove @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
A very interesting series with The Real News’ Paul Jay and Babak Yektafar:
Part 1: No Iranian Bomb
Part 2: Iranian Reaction to Bush
Part 3: Iran, media and the candidates
Why was the NIE released?
Irancove @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
According to retired senior officer of U.S. Military Intelligence and Army Special Forces Pat Lang:
The “jungle telegraph” in Washington is booming with news of the Iran NIE. I am told that the reason the conclusions of the NIE were released is that it was communicated to the White House that “intelligence career seniors were lined […]
CIA paying Iranian nuclear scientists to defect
Irancove @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
via Los Angeles Times by Greg Miller
WASHINGTON — The CIA launched a secret program in 2005 designed to degrade Iran’s nuclear weapons program by persuading key officials to defect, an effort that has prompted a “handful” of significant departures, current and former U.S. intelligence officials familiar with the operation say.
The previously undisclosed program, which CIA […]
Giuliani deaf on Iran intel
Irancove @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Via TPM:
RUSSERT: Seeing that, hearing that, learning that [NIE], doesn’t this remove the option of a pre-emptive military strike against Iran?
GIULIANI: No, I don’t think it does…. Of course we don’t want to use the military option. It’d be dangerous; it’d be risky; but I think it would be more dangerous and more risky if […]
Bolton calls Iran nuclear intelligence “Quasi-Putsch”
Irancove @ December 9, 2007 # No Comment Yet
Far-right ideologue John Bolton on the Iran intelligence report:
“This is politics disguised as intelligence…”