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The Director of National Intelligence, Mike McConnell had this to say a month ago:
| quote: | The director of national intelligence said Tuesday he does not plan to make public any of the key findings of a soon-to-be-completed assessment on Iran's nuclear program.
Mike McConnell said to do so could expose U.S. intelligence capabilities and enable Iran to change its practices.
The National Intelligence Estimate is intended to lay out the entire intelligence community's best estimate on the threat posed by Iran's nuclear program. The Bush administration maintains Iran is seeking to build nuclear weapons, but the Iranians say the program is to meet the country's energy needs.
http://www.cnn.com/2007/POLITICS/11....nie/index.html |
Interestingly, McConnell also had this to say:
| quote: | McConnell also said Tuesday he would resign if he determined administration officials were cherry-picking intelligence to support their positions. Some members of Congress and other critics of the war in Iraq have accused the Bush administration of selectively making public intelligence that supported its case for invading Iraq.
McConnell said the "first mission" of the intelligence community is to "speak truth to power."
"If it were cherry-picked in an inappropriate way, then for me, that's a professional obligation to object, and I would submit my resignation," he said. |
I'm sure we'll be seeing this little partisan wingnutter submit his resignation REAL soon.......
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Whence September dusk grows crisper still,
with leaves all crimson conquered,
I yearn to shout,
and dance about,
and stick pickles in my honker...
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