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Obama v. the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran

Last year, the NIE famously concluded with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. Why did Obama say yesterday that Iran is pursuing nuclear weapons?
Glenn Greenwald

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  • Wednesday, January 14, 2009 04:03 AM

    Meet the New Boss

    ...Back then, Obama was touting as authoritative the NIE's finding that "Iran halted its nuclear weapon development program four years ago." Yesterday, with no explanation, he embraced the opposite of the NIE's finding and claimed that they were still pursuing nuclear weapons...

    It is easy to criticize the Establishment until you are part of it. Then they own you. Obama has been given his orders.

    —jealousmonk Read jealousmonk's other letters

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