I will never forget 9/11. I refuse to change the way I feel 6 years later from the way I felt when our nation was attacked. Time will not heal my wound. Unfortunately, I fear that too many have forgotten the pain of 9/11. What was OK in 2002 is not not OK because "time heals". Those that have forgotten the pain of 9/11, must look back on the feeling of 9/12 and think they are an over reaction.
(NYT via. Instapundit)
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For six years, Central Intelligence Agency officers have worried that someday the tide of post-Sept. 11 opinion would turn, and their harsh treatment of prisoners from Al Qaeda would be subjected to hostile scrutiny and possible criminal prosecution.
Now that day may have arrived, after years of shifting legal advice, searing criticism from rights groups — and no new terrorist attacks on American soil.
Thursday, December 13, 2007
Thursday, December 06, 2007
Torpedo Away!
As usual, the Democrat/media spin machine and a defenseless President Bush have "topedoed" any chance of stopping nukes in Iran. Let's just hope they use them on someone else, first. John Bolton on the NIE in the Washington Post.
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...there is little substantive difference between the conclusions of the 2005 NIE on Iran's nuclear capabilities and the 2007 NIE.
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The real differences between the NIEs are not in the hard data but in the psychological assessment of the mullahs' motives and objectives. The current NIE freely admits to having only moderate confidence that the suspension continues and says that there are significant gaps in our intelligence and that our analysts dissent from their initial judgment on suspension. This alone should give us considerable pause.
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In a background briefing, intelligence officials said they had concluded it was "possible" but not "likely" that the new information they were relying on was deception.
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That such a flawed product could emerge after a drawn-out bureaucratic struggle is extremely troubling. While the president and others argue that we need to maintain pressure on Iran, this "intelligence" torpedo has all but sunk those efforts, inadequate as they were. Ironically, the NIE opens the way for Iran to achieve its military nuclear ambitions in an essentially unmolested fashion, to the detriment of us all.
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...there is little substantive difference between the conclusions of the 2005 NIE on Iran's nuclear capabilities and the 2007 NIE.
...
The real differences between the NIEs are not in the hard data but in the psychological assessment of the mullahs' motives and objectives. The current NIE freely admits to having only moderate confidence that the suspension continues and says that there are significant gaps in our intelligence and that our analysts dissent from their initial judgment on suspension. This alone should give us considerable pause.
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In a background briefing, intelligence officials said they had concluded it was "possible" but not "likely" that the new information they were relying on was deception.
...
That such a flawed product could emerge after a drawn-out bureaucratic struggle is extremely troubling. While the president and others argue that we need to maintain pressure on Iran, this "intelligence" torpedo has all but sunk those efforts, inadequate as they were. Ironically, the NIE opens the way for Iran to achieve its military nuclear ambitions in an essentially unmolested fashion, to the detriment of us all.
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