Boys and Girls,
Today's news shows us what happens when someone, someone as yet unnamed gets frightened of The People. The polls are showing 90% favor for IMPEACHMENT. The forces are gathering, and CONgress is scared, that is for sure. Someone's whistling blowing on why the subpoenas weren't followed on the NIE on IRAN .. and now, we have the black on white on Iran.
Only it doesn't stop with the issuance of this item, it CONTINUES . it actually raises more speculation as to what NOW! They are still war criminals, they aren't absolved of what they did, someone just made sure it didn't get any worse than it already is. And we will never know why, though there will misinfo, disinfo, spin and historical speculation; many will take credit, but it is the you and I that made the difference. I surely would not want the upcoming impeachment demo on TV during the Rosebowl parade if I was sucking defense money up like water on a hot summer's day. But perhaps there is even more than that at work here.
But let's see, what's NEXT (we're all conditioned to think that way now, what IS Next ..??)
Now all await the BUSHISTAS efforts to blame the loss of the Irak "engagement" on CONgress, which MADE them all "rush" into Iraq and forcing them to beleagure the threat of WWWIII to help us win the war - with OUR enemies. Nothing to do with them.
We are all to blame for the defeat of American forces, too, for we did not support them. Every little demo, every petition, every blog was TO BLAME for the lack of moral and the will to "win" that little 3-day "exurcusion," the shock and awe campaign from HELL. We killed ALL those troops and all those Iraqis.
We are the ones who demanded attacks on Iran, not THEM.
You and CONgress and I are to blame that Osama is still at large (remember a tape is to be released this week ..)
Why do we need a missile defense shield if Iran and North Korea are now neutralized? Or are we to blame for that expensive boondoggle, too? WE insisted on it! Not THEM! We got the kickbacks from the defense contractors, right? We ran the budget into ruin.
Can you say DELUSIONAL? Can you see this PROVES it ? ?
Do you see what I am driving at? Can you?
And remember what I said, weeks back, ENTER JAY ROCKEFELLER! WOW! HERO!
It was time for the CIA to trot him soon. And here he IS!!
So be SURE To watch this administration spin, spin, spin --- see the CBS article after the WaPo article.
First one to bitch about my analyses, someone who thinks I don't get The Game, pays for my ISP for a year .. I am RIGHT, you'll see.
Again, the IRAN debacle is yet another war crime, folks, it really is. They KNEW for a year it was all lies, yet they lied about Iran, they treated the President of Iran in a despicable way when he visited the United States after issuing him a visa, they scared the Iranian people and all of us nearly to distraction. Sigh, when does it END??
This mess, this nightmare is far from over; as this definitely proves how intelligence "gets" manipulated to serve the President's and the Vice President's end; the buck stops with them.
And the media has had a hand in all this. Mark my words, or as I say, WATCH. People are going to be very angry seeing how they were duped in the media.
One LAST note: Mike McConnell is the freak bringing you telecom surveillance, nice, real nice.
Veeger
Tuesday, December 4, 2007; Page A01
If Iran were to proceed with a weapons effort, it would not be carried out at known facilities, the officials said, adding that they do not believe Iran is enriching uranium at an undeclared facility.
Congressional leaders of both parties had been pressing the director of national intelligence, Mike McConnell, for the report for months, and some had worried that the delay was the result of the administration's efforts to influence the final result. Those concerns appeared to dissipate yesterday, when the report contradicted not only the administration's views but also the intelligence community's previous assessments -- evidence, to many observers, of the intelligence agencies' new willingness to question assumptions and assert their independence from policymakers.
"The key judgments show that the intelligence community has learned its lessons from the Iraq debacle," said Sen. John D. Rockefeller IV (D-W.Va.), who chairs the Senate intelligence committee. He was referring to long-standing Democratic allegations that intelligence on Iraq was skewed to help promote the administration's desire for war.
In this case, Rockefeller said,
"it has issued judgments that break sharply with its own previous assessments, and they reflect a real difference from the views espoused by top administration officials."
While concluding that Iran's weapons program is now halted, the NIE presents a mixed view of Tehran's nuclear ambitions. It portrays Iran's ruling clerics as susceptible to international pressure, having abandoned an extensive and costly covert nuclear program in the face of threatened economic sanctions and global censure.
But the report also depicts Iran as cleverly preserving its options, by making steady strides toward a civilian nuclear energy capability that both complies with international law and puts the country on a course that will allow it to easily develop nuclear arms if it so chooses.
The report also states more confidently than in previous assessments that Iran's military had been actively seeking to build a bomb. Iranian armed forces were "working under government direction to develop nuclear weapons" until the fall of 2003, it says.
The assessment, under preparation for more than 18 months, was completed on Tuesday and President Bush and Vice President Cheney were briefed on Wednesday, intelligence officials said. Hadley said Bush first learned in August or September about intelligence indicating Iran had halted its weapons program and was advised it would take time to evaluate.
Several participants said there was strong debate among analysts during the process, but in the end they agreed on nearly every judgment. A majority of the intelligence agencies assessed, with high confidence, that the closure of the military program marks the end of the weapons effort. The Energy Department and the National Intelligence Council said gaps in what they know make them conclude only with "moderate confidence" that efforts remain on hold.
The State Department's bureau of intelligence and research judged Iran to be slightly further away from producing enough weapons-grade uranium for a bomb.
Last year, Congress required that key judgments from the NIE be declassified. McConnell said in November that he had no plans to issue an unclassified version, but officials said the dramatic shift in the assessment convinced him otherwise.
Since our understanding of Iran's nuclear capabilities has changed, we felt it was important to release this information to ensure that an accurate presentation is available,Donald Kerr, principal deputy director of national intelligence, said in a statement.
Staff writers Walter Pincus, Peter Baker and Robin Wright and staff researcher Julie Tate contributed to this report.
Why Was The NIE Released?
By Kevin DrumDec 3, 2007
(Political Animal) WHY WAS THE NIE RELEASED?....A couple of random thoughts on the newly released NIE concluding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003:
- This NIE was apparently finished a year ago, and its basic parameters were almost certainly common knowledge in the White House well before that. This means that all the leaks, all the World War III stuff, all the blustering about the IAEA — all of it was approved for public consumption after Cheney/Bush/Rice/etc. knew perfectly well it was mostly baseless.
- Why were the key judgments finally released? Cheney didn't want them released, Bush surely didn't want them released, and DNI Mike McConnell told Congress a few weeks ago that he didn't want them released. So who did?
Like I said, just a guess. But who else has the clout to force Bush, Cheney, and McConnell to change course?
By the way, Stephen Hadley will be on TV furiously providing the Bush administration's spin on all this at 3:15 Eastern time. Should be good for some laughs.
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From SourceWatch
Retired Admiral John Michael "Mike" McConnell was confirmed February 6, 2007, by the U.S. Senate as Director of National Intelligence (DNI).[1]
On February 20, 2007, McConnell was sworn in to office.[2]
Prior to his nomination[3] by President George W. Bush, he was a Vice President and Director of Booz Allen Hamilton's Infrastructure Assurance Center of Excellence.[4]
McConnell served as director of the National Security Agency from 1992 to 1996. He was Intelligence Officer (J-2) for the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff (JCS-J2) during the dissolution of the Soviet Union and Operation DESERT STORM under former Secretary of State Colin L. Powell.[5]
"During his tenure at the Pentagon and as director of the National Security Agency, Admiral McConnell worked closely" with now Secretary of Defense Robert M. Gates "during Mr. Gates’s time as deputy national security adviser and as director of central intelligence, and with Dick Cheney while he was defense secretary during the first Persian Gulf war."[6]
At Booz Allen Hamilton, McConnell supported the National Communications Systems, a joint industry and federal agency group that focuses on telecommunications, national security and emergency procedures issues.[7]
McConnell is a former Chairman of the Board at the Intelligence and National Security Alliance (INSA), of which Booz Allen Hamilton is a founding member.[8]
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