CIA analyst preempts Cheney's Iran Nuclear Threat

[Goldmund]

Ray McGovern, a former CIA analyst of 27-years, who chaired National Intelligence Estimates and prepared/briefed the President's Daily Brief, speaks out against Dick Cheney's conjuring of nuclear threats from Iran:

Whatever plans Dick Cheney and his neo-conservatives may have had to conjure up a nuclear threat from Iran as "justification" for military action have been sharply undercut by some timely leaks to the Washington Post. In a redux of President George W. Bush's spin on the "grave and growing" danger from Iraq, Cheney protégé and newly appointed U.N. Ambassador John Bolton is on record warning that Iranian "deception" must not be allowed to continue much longer: "It will be too late. Iran will have nuclear weapons."

Not for ten more years, report sources close to the U.S. intelligence community in yesterday's lead story in the Post. Several government officials with access to the most recent National Intelligence Estimate on Iran have told journalist Dafna Linzer of its main judgments. By doing so, Linzer's sources seem determined not to sit idly by as our country is misled once again into a war favored only by "neo-conservatives" in Washington and their counterparts in the far-right Likud government in Israel who share a vision of remaking the map of the Middle East.

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[i miss america]

1. It's like deja vu ... all over again

[wli]

2. so they've foiled the upcoming MIHOP?

I'm not sure leaking the NIE data on Iran is enough to educate people since the MSM (obviously) are never going to touch it.

[Hotler]

3. Shut up RAY! Drink your kool-aide, put on your arm band.

Wow! Dick Cheney and neo-conservatives mentioned in the same sentence. Will never make the MSM.

[laylah]

4. As IF

this will stop the Dick.

Jenn