[Grovenet] déjà vu All Over Again

[Ron D'Eau Claire]

White House brushes off CIA draft on Iran: report Mon Nov 20, 11:56 AM ET
 
The White House dismissed a classified CIA draft assessment that found no
conclusive evidence of a secret Iranian nuclear weapons program, The New
Yorker magazine reported.

The article by investigative journalist Seymour Hersh said the CIA's
analysis was based on technical intelligence collected by satellites and on
other evidence like measurements of the radioactivity of water samples.

"The CIA found no conclusive evidence, as yet, of a secret Iranian nuclear
weapons program running parallel to the civilian operations that Iran has
declared to the International Atomic Energy Agency," according to the
article.

"A current senior intelligence official confirmed the existence of the CIA
analysis, and told me that the White House had been hostile to it," it said.

The United States has accused Iran of pursuing nuclear weapons under the
guise of a civilian energy program...

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061120/pl_nm/iran_usa_report_dc_3


Hopefully this time Congress has a short enough leash on the President to
keep him from repeating the Iraq invasion. Who knows if Iran has a secret
nuclear weapon program? I sure don't. I doubt if Congress knows. What I do
know is that President Bush has no credibility. As they say, he's
demonstrated that what he says can't be trusted if his tongue came
notarized. 

Two more years...

Ron D'Eau Claire