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Battle In Seattle
Headlines : "War on Terror"
Summary:

Even as two American aircraft carrier strike groups cruise near Iran, U.S. intelligence remains in a fog about crucial questions, including where Iran’s nuclear program stands and what is the realistic danger. In this guest essay, former CIA analyst Ray McGovern looks at the intelligence community’s confusion.

*Also See: Pentagon Whistle-Blower on the Coming War With Iran:* Karen Kwiatkowski, a veteran of the Pentagon with first-hand experience of the administration’s cherry-picking of intelligence, talks to James Harris from truthdig and reveals why Bush thinks he can win a war with Iran, why few politicians are serious about withdrawal and why, “When they call Iraq a success, they mean it.”

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By Ray McGovern
Republished from Consortium News
Iran: How far from the Bomb?

That was one of the key questions asked of newly confirmed Director of National Intelligence Michael McConnell at a Senate Armed Forces Committee hearing on Tuesday.

Why had McConnell avoided this front-burner issue in his prepared remarks? Because an honest answer would have been: “Beats the hell out of us. Despite the billions that American taxpayers have sunk into improving U.S. intelligence, we can only guess.”

But the question is certainly a fair, and urgent one. A mere three weeks into the job, McConnell can perhaps be forgiven for merely reciting the hazy forecast of his predecessor, John Negroponte, and the obscurantist jargon that has been introduced into key national intelligence estimates (NIEs) in recent years). McConnell had these two sentences committed to memory:

“We assess that Iran seeks to develop a nuclear weapon. The information is incomplete, but we assess that Iran could develop a nuclear weapon early-to-mid-next decade….

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What a load of crap. Unbelievable. These guys just don’t quit.

microdot @ 03/05/07 06:06:46

OK. But. Wait. Hegel was here :

Evidence of US coercion of IAEA members against Iran revealed

OPEN QUOTE

Demands for an investigation into coercion of nations by the US during the vote against Iran at the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), have been growing following the revelations by a former ranking official of the Bush administration acknowledging that India’s votes at the IAEA in 2005 and 2006 had been “coerced.”

In a talk just over a week ago at the Institute for Defence Studies and Analyses in New Delhi, Stephen G. Rademaker — who left his job as Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation and International Security at the U.S. State Department last December – said, referring to India’s changing attitude towards non-proliferation, “[t]he best illustration of this is the two votes India cast against Iran at the IAEA. I am the first person to admit that the votes were coerced.”

The Indian government to date has not denied this accusation and has remained silent.

. . .

Mr Rademaker quit the State Department earlier this year and is now a paid lobbyist of the Indian government in Washington. In the US State Department’s website he is still referred to as Acting Assistant Secretary for Non-proliferation and International Security.

microdot @ 03/05/07 12:40:09

See now how did this power shift? It’s a different pair of nuts in the vice.

Some entity in the Transnational Profiteer’s Gameboard is closing in for a kill. We would like, of course, to think that Mr. Rademaker has suddenly grown a conscience. Allow me to suggest that we refrain from making that assumption.

Nevertheless, it doesn’t mean we can’t use his master’s agenda to serve our own.

microdot @ 03/05/07 12:46:12
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