Caught again. Cheney fixing facts on Iran. Iran=No Threat

[DarbyOGill]

A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear programme, and thus make the document more supportive of U.S. Vice President Dick Cheney's militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts of the process provided by participants to two former Central Intelligence Agency officers.
"The White House wants a document that it can use as evidence for its Iran policy," says Giraldi. Despite pressures on them to change their dissenting conclusions, however, Giraldi says some analysts have refused to go along with conclusions that they believe are not supported by the evidence.

In October 2006, Giraldi wrote in The American Conservative that the NIE on Iran had already been completed, but that Cheney's office had objected to its findings on both the Iranian nuclear programme and Iran's role in Iraq. The draft NIE did not conclude that there was confirming evidence that Iran was arming the Shiite insurgents in Iraq, according to Giraldi.

Giraldi said the White House had decided to postpone any decision on the internal release of the NIE until after the November 2006 elections.

Cheney's desire for a "clean" NIE that could be used to support his aggressive policy toward Iran was apparently a major factor in the replacement of John Negroponte as director of national intelligence in early 2007.

http://www.informationclearinghouse.inf ... e18692.htm

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CHIEF UN atomic watchdog Mohamed ElBaradei said overnight he had no evidence Iran was building nuclear weapons and accused US leaders of adding "fuel to the fire" with recent bellicose rhetoric.

"I have not received any information that there is a concrete active nuclear weapons program going on right now," the director of the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) told CNN.

http://www.news.com.au/heraldsun/story/ ... 61,00.html

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So the IAEA says no evidence, Cheney's spies couldnt find any, so he wont tell the American people that.
Why?

The election of course. The GOP have only one election strategy, frighten the people, then propose a bellicose bill like the Kyle-Lieberman bill, and then attack the Democrats for being 'soft on terrorism' if they dont vote for it. That way the frightened Americans will vote for the GOP who put themselves across as Americas supermen. (though it seems there are more gays and even pedophiles like Mark Foley and Jim Kolbe in the GOP)

Dont be fooled again America. Send the GOP to the bottom.

[TheBear]

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