Iran NIE

The President had already scheduled a news conference for today, or I’m betting he wouldn’t have picked today to talk with reporters.  Not one day after the Iran NIE was finally released.

Did Gates Force Bush to Release a Humiliating NIE?

Despite the best efforts of the Administration and their now demoralized neocon supporters to put a positive spin on the new NIE to an incredulous media at the President’s morning presser, the most plausible explanation for the NIE’s complete reversal of intelligence findings from the 2005 NIE is that enough adults in the Pentagon finally told the Bush/Cheney regime to knock off the war talk on Iran. But how did they force the [...]

And, from over on the Right, we find this assessment…

The NIE on Iran’s Nuclear Program

Norman Podhoretz takes note of some questions about it: …I entertain an even darker suspicion. It is that the intelligence community, which has for some years now been leaking material calculated to undermine George W. Bush, is doing it again. This time the purpose is to head off the possibility that the President may order air [...]

Back on the Left, the media takes in on the chin…

Mainstream media gives Bush a pass on Iran lie, they’re all one big happy club

It was all one big happy boys’ and girls’ club today, when the mainstream media got its chance to question President Bush about the recent bombshell that when Bush warned about Iran’s nuclear program leading to “World War III” he already knew that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program 4 years ago. Bush then upped the ante by lying to the media again during his press conference this morning. In response to one question Bush said [...]