[lbo-talk] US officials upset CIA not digging up enough dirt on Iran

B. docile_body at yahoo.com
Fri Aug 25 05:03:22 PDT 2006


[Looks like these govt. officials want false, but useful, intelligenced delivered! What exists isn't good enough, it seems. Apologies if already forwarded. -B.]

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U.S. Spy Agencies Criticized On Iran GOP-Led Panel Faults Intelligence

By Dafna Linzer Washington Post Staff Writer Thursday, August 24, 2006; Page A01

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The 29-page report, principally written by a Republican staff member on the House intelligence committee who holds a hard-line view on Iran, fully backs the White House position that the Islamic republic is moving forward with a nuclear weapons program and that it poses a significant danger to the United States. But it chides the intelligence community for not providing enough direct evidence to support that assertion.

"American intelligence agencies do not know nearly enough about Iran's nuclear weapons program" to help policymakers at a critical time, the report's authors say. Information "regarding potential Iranian chemical weapons and biological weapons programs is neither voluminous nor conclusive," and little evidence has been gathered to tie Iran to al-Qaeda and to the recent fighting between Israel and Hezbollah in southern Lebanon, they say.

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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/08/23/AR2006082301309.html?nav=rss_politics



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