Thomas B. Edsall and Max Follmer, Huffington Post Four former CIA officials who provided intelligence information to past presidents described as preposterous President Bush’s claim that he was unaware until very recently that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003. “It’s unbelievable,” said Melvin Goodman, who worked for the CIA from 1966 to…
AFP Service US Vice President Dick Cheney on Wednesday acknowledged that a blockbuster US intelligence finding that Iran halted its nuclear weapons drive in 2003 may hamper diplomatic efforts to confront Tehran. “Perhaps, but it wasn’t easy to begin with,” Cheney, one of the staunchest US hawks in the standoff over the Islamic republic’s atomic…
By Matthew Rothschild, The Progressive Hold on a second here. The risk of Bush attacking Iran is not yet over. When the National Intelligence Estimate on Iran came out earlier this week, a lot of people jumped to the conclusion that Cheney and the hardliners have lost, and so we can all breathe a sigh…
By Tim Shorrock, CorpWatch A new intelligence institution to be inaugurated soon by the Bush administration will allow government spying agencies to conduct broad surveillance and reconnaissance inside the United States for the first time. Under a proposal being reviewed by Congress, a National Applications Office (NAO) will be established to coordinate how the Department…
