Summary
PARIS - The newly released American National Intelligence Estimate concerning Iran's nuclear status has been like the discovery of a freshwater spring in a Carolinas swamp.
In its clarity, professionalism and evident concern for exact statement, it could not be in more contrast with the bombast, distortion, political rhetoric, dissimulation and sheer lies with which the American public debate over Middle and Near East policy has been conducted during most of the past decade - and thanks to Washington, in most of the Western world as well. How could this have happened?See the full content of this document
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Nie Shreds Neocon Credibility
It seems that this NIE has been ready since the summer. A ferocious battle to change or suppress it must have been fought by the president's and Dick Cheney's men, as well as by the surviving neoconservatives in the policy apparatus. Since the...
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