NIE - unreliable crap or Holy Writ? They report we deride.
I’ve got a whole lot more confidence that the Israelis know what Iran is up to than the idiots in Washington DC.
And the Israelis are calling yesterday’s bizarre NIE a steaming pile of nonsense (the same NIE which in 2005 said that Iran was busying herself making nukes, but now says they quit two years prior to that. So the NIE was wrong then and right now, or right then and wrong now? How can we have any confidence in it?).
“We have a lot of very clear and solid intelligence, that to my best understanding, clearly shows that the Iranians are developing nuclear weapons today, as they did two years ago. This is not a matter of speculation, but this is about solid intelligence.”
I have a basic rule that I apply to matters of military practice, dealing with terrorists, security policies and the like:
When in doubt, go with the Israelis.
“The Americans apparently came to their conclusions on the basis of human intelligence,” he said, mentioning Gen. Ali Reza Asghari, a former Iranian deputy defense minister who defected to the West in February.
For those who would base their assessment of a WMD threat on the say-so of one person I have two words: Ahmed Chalabi.
Janette says:
“When in doubt, go with the Israelis.”
Yep.
And, sorry, but I no longer accept any report from anyone without knowing the authors and their motivations. Agencies don’t produce reports, people do. Who are they and what’s their motivation?
Steamboat McGoo says:
The Israeli’s motives aren’t always exactly “pure as the driven snow”, but I trust them waaay more than our own CIA right now. Or anyone else, for that matter.
Beth says:
“They report, we deride.”
I think you’ve just coined the new MVRWC tag line!