Obama Administration Statements on Iran Nukes Not Backed by Intelligence
by Jeremy R. Hammond / May 14th, 2009 (18)
A recent unclassified CIA report to Congress says that it is not known whether Iran is working towards developing a nuclear weapon, despite consistent rhetoric from the Obama administration that Iran is pursuing the bomb.
The report was drafted by the CIA’s Weapons Intelligence, Nonproliferation, and Arms Control Center (WINPAC) and submitted to the Congress by the Deputy Director of National Intelligence for Analysis.
It discusses the acquisition of technology related to weapons of mass destruction (WMD) for the year 2008 and repeats the assessment of a 2007 National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that Iran “had been working to develop nuclear weapons …
(Full article …) http://dissidentvoice.org/2009/05/obama-administration-statements-on-iran-nukes-not-backed-by-intelligence/
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