Iran laughing at U.S. lack of nuclear intelligence

ANALYSIS: Iran laughing at U.S. lack of nuclear intelligence - Haaretz - Israel News
The noise that was heard last night in Tehran, according to credible reports, was a hearty Persian laugh after looking at the U.S. intelligence service’s website. The unclassified document that Director of National Intelligence, Adm. Mike McConnell published, titled “Iran: Nuclear Intentions and Capabilities,” as a laundered version that faithfully represents the greatest secrets collected by the CIA and the other U.S. intelligence services, can appropriately be called “much evaluation on no intelligence.”

“Behind the heap of words, presented as “a low or medium level of certainty,” the differences between the worst-case and the best-case views on when Iran will be capable of producing a nuclear weapon are not that great. These range from somewhere between 2009 and the following five years, starting in 2010. Even McConnell’s intelligence officers agree that Iran can buy nukes off the shelf - from Syria, North Korea and maybe Pakistan - and that the renewal of the program, if it is indeed on a coffee break, depends only on the intentions of the rulers, and those intentions will change only when the rulers are replaced. The CIA is so angry with Bush, it seems, that it is ready to go to great lengths in order to help another president.

Iran is right, we do not have a clue. Why publish a report so the Leftist media can make a big deal about how long it will really be before Iran can go nuclear when the report itself says it only has a low or medium level of certainty? Even Israel says the report is wrong.

This was obviously designed to play into the democrats and embarrass the President. The intelligence heads play it safe and take themselves off the hook if Bush should order a strike on Iran. If Bush is right then they can just tell the new administration that the report had a low degree of certainty. If things go wrong after a Bush strike they can tell the new administration that they told Bush there was no reason to launch an attack. It is a win win situation for them but the “intelligence” report totally fails the country. If the combined intelligence of 16 intelligence agencies is nothing more than a guess what good are they? I am not impressed and neither is Iran.