White House Acknowledges Iran Intel 'Hard to Come By'

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The White House acknowledged on Sunday the difficulty of gathering good intelligence in Iran but said Tehran's behavior was "suspicious enough" to warrant stepping up pressure over its nuclear program. "Intelligence in Iran is hard to come by. It is a very closed society. They keep their secrets very well," White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley told CNN's "Late Edition."

Hadley was asked whether, given the intelligence failures in pre-war Iraq, he was convinced that U.S. intelligence in Iran was good enough to declare that it was developing a nuclear bomb. On "Fox News Sunday," Hadley also cautioned the Iranian government against taking comfort in President Bush's decision to back Europe in offering limited economic incentives to Tehran to abandon its suspected nuclear arms program.

The U.S. intelligence community faces major credibility problems after reporting that pre-war Iraq had stockpiles of chemical and biological weapons and was pursuing nuclear arms. The assertions were a main justification for the 2003 U.S. invasion but no such weapons have been found.




http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?type=topNews&storyID=7885693

[JetCityLiberal]

1. They'll just make something up

Their standard MO.

JetCityLiberal

[NNN0LHI]

2. His comments come less than a week after...

...The New York Times reported that a presidential commission investigating pre-war intelligence about Iraq's weapons has concluded that U.S. data on Iran's arms is "inadequate."

[mojavekid]

3. But he already told us it's hard work!

so where's the story here?

[struggle4progress]

4. They aint American. It's downright suspicious. eom

[LynnTheDem]

5. As was info on Iraq hard to come by...but WE KNOW...there is NO DOUBT...

Uh huh.

[seemslikeadream]

6. Have they asked Richard Perle?

n/t

[Mz Pip]

7. Why should that stop them?

They will do whatever they want. If BushCo gets a bee up his ass about bombing Iran, then that is what he will do.

Lack of intelligence hasn't stopped them before.

Mz Pip
:dem:

[lovuian]

8. Well especially when Allawi told them who all our spies were!!!

I bet Iran has more Intel on us than we do about them!!!

[True_Blue]

9. White House acknowledges Iran intel 'hard to come by'

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - The White House acknowledged on Sunday the difficulty of gathering good intelligence in Iran but said Tehran's behavior was "suspicious enough" to warrant stepping up pressure over its nuclear program.

"Intelligence in Iran is hard to come by. It is a very closed society. They keep their secrets very well," White House national security adviser Stephen Hadley told CNN's "Late Edition."

Hadley was asked whether, given the intelligence failures in pre-war Iraq, he was convinced that U.S. intelligence in Iran was good enough to declare that it was developing a nuclear bomb.

On "Fox News Sunday," Hadley also cautioned the Iranian government against taking comfort in President George W. Bush's decision to back Europe in offering limited economic incentives to Tehran to abandon its suspected nuclear arms program.

more....
http://www.reuters.com/newsArticle.jhtml?storyID=7885756&type=worldNews

[Theres-a]

10. Taking comfort?

strange choice of words.:crazy:

[Philosophy]

11. We'd better invade and torture them

It's the only way to be sure.