This is a 9 minute CSPAN video clip of a press conference at the white house featuring our esteemed President George W. Bush.
On the editorial page of the Dec. 13 Wall Street Journal, Claude Moniquet, one of the critics of the NIE, writes:
"As a matter of fact, U.S. intelligence services have so far failed to predict the nuclearization of a single foreign nation. They failed to do so with regard to the Soviet Union in 1949, China in 1964, India and Pakistan in 1998, and North Korea in 2002."
"The agencies say in the report that they don't 'know' whether Tehran is considering equipping itself with nuclear arms. These super-spies in the suburbs of Washington do not seem to be the least embarrassed by this admission of incompetence. With their multibillion-dollar budget, one might certainly expect the agencies to 'know' these sorts of things."
This is a great article titled: Don't Lean On The NIE, written by David R. Henderson on December 18, 2007.
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