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National Intelligence Estimate stories: 12 news summaries

US Spies Are Voice of Caution in Iran Debate

Israelis, Europeans believe Tehran is developing warheads

Sep 29, 09 11:00 AM CDT
(Newser) - The global intelligence community is at odds over whether Iran is developing nuclear warheads, with US spies insisting it isn’t, and European and Israeli spies begging to differ. In what the New York Times calls a “mirror image” of the Iraq debate, the US say documents found... More »

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Iran • intelligence • nuclear program • National Intelligence Estimate • nuclear sites • spies • intelligence agencies • Qom

 Iran Poised to 
 Create Nuke 
 Next Year 

Country mastered warhead deployment in 2003: Times of London

Aug 3, 09 1:50 AM CDT
(Newser) - Iran has the capability to build a nuclear weapon within a year, and has either started to do so or is waiting for the go-ahead from Ayatollah Khamenei, sources tell the Times of London. The 2007 US National Intelligence Estimate that reported that Iran had halted nuclear research in 2003... More »

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Iran • nuclear weapons • Natanz • uranium enrichment • uranium • National Intelligence Estimate • centrifuge

Dems Blast Secret Iraq Report

Rosy picture aims to
bolster White House, they charge

Apr 4, 08 5:20 AM CDT
(Newser) - A new, top-secret intelligence report asserts that conditions on the ground in Iraq have markedly improved, reports the Wall Street Journal. Only a select number of House and Senate members have seen the report, but top Democrats are already blasting the document as an effort to bolster the administration's Iraq... More »

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Iraq • Congress • David Petraeus • Jane Harman • National Intelligence Estimate • House Intelligence Committee

New Iraq NIE Likely
to Remain Secret

Officials keen to keep report classified after Iran estimate flap

Mar 7, 08 1:46 PM CST
(Newser) - Intelligence officials may keep the results of a new assessment on Iraq confidential when it's completed next month, the Washington Post reports. The new National Intelligence Estimate will be given to Congress, but intelligence officials are gunshy about making it public because of the brouhaha that erupted when they released... More »

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Iraq • national security • War on Terror • David Petraeus • John Warner • Mike McConnell • National Intelligence Estimate • confidential information • al-Qaeda • Director of National Intelligence

EU Experts Say Iran Closer to Nuke Weapon

Tehran a year away
on uranium; separate UN report out today

Feb 22, 08 9:25 AM CST
(Newser) - A new report from a European Union agency concludes that Iran could have enough uranium to build an atomic bomb within one year. The EU results—which precede a major UN report coming out today—look nothing like the findings of the US intelligence community, writes Der Spiegel: the recent... More »

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Iran • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • European Union • nuclear weapons • nuclear program • atomic bomb • uranium • National Intelligence Estimate • enriched uranium

Bush to Israel: NIE Was Wrong

Prez privately telling Israel he doesn't believe Iran has shut down nukes

Jan 15, 08 3:15 PM CST
(Newser) - President Bush is privately assuring Israel’s leaders that he doesn’t believe the National Intelligence Estimate's conclusion that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003. In disavowing December's NIE, Bush said the “conclusions don't reflect his own views,” a US official told Newsweek. The private pledge... More »

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Iran • Israel • Ehud Olmert • National Intelligence Estimate • Stephen Hadley • NIE • George W. Bush

Iran Plans 19 Nuke Plants

Rejects calls to drop uranium enrichment

Dec 24, 07 11:47 AM CST
(Newser) - Iran has dismissed calls to drop uranium enrichment and plans 19 new nuclear power plants, Reuters reports. "US officials have talked of negotiations" on the condition that Iran stop the enrichment, "but we do not accept any preconditions for talks," Iran's Foreign Minister said today. The UN... More »

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Iran • Russia • United Nations • nuclear power • Mahmoud Ahmadinejad • Condoleezza Rice • uranium • National Intelligence Estimate • UN sanctions • Manouchehr Mottaki • Bushehr reactor • nuclear power plant

Iran Resumed Nuke Program, Says Group

Marxists join neo-cons in chorus against intelligence reversal

Dec 11, 07 8:06 AM CST
(Newser) - An Iranian opposition group claims that the US intelligence agency's recent reversal on the status of Iran’s nuclear program was in error, the Wall Street Journal reports. The group, which first identified Iran's nuclear program in 2002, agrees that Iran closed down its major research facility in 2003, says... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • terrorist • National Intelligence Estimate • National Council for Resistance in Iran

Angry Iran Blasts US for 'Espionage'

Minister attack US
intel, denies past weapons program

Dec 8, 07 7:54 PM CST
(Newser) - Iran has blasted the US for spying and demanded “explanations for US espionage" in a letter sent to Washington, the BBC reports.  Foreign Minister Manouchehr Mottaki said today that a recent US intelligence report—which claims Iran's nuclear weapons program ended four years ago—was full of “... More »

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Iran • nuclear program • National Intelligence Estimate • Manouchehr Mottaki

U-Turn on Iran Will Shake Up Foreign Policy

News of nuke halt leaves hawks isolated; intel agencies undercut

Dec 4, 07 8:44 AM CST
(Newser) - The National Intelligence Estimate's findings yesterday that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 will have dramatic fallout at home and abroad, the New York Times reports, beginning with the collapse of the White House's recent campaign to portray Iran as an immediate threat to world peace. It will... More »

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Iran • National Intelligence Estimate • nuclear enrichment

Iran Praises
Nuke Report; Israel Skeptical

Barak says Tehran hasn't stopped, urges more US pressure

Dec 4, 07 8:15 AM CST
(Newser) - Iran trumpeted a US intelligence report released yesterday that said it suspended its nuclear weapons program in 2003, but Israel expressed skepticism, Reuters reports. "The condition of Iran's peaceful nuclear activities is becoming clear to the world," an Iranian official said of the report. Not so fast, said... More »

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Iran • Israel • Tehran • United States • National Intelligence Estimate • Britain

Intelligence Community Doubts Iraqi Leadership

Big insurgent offensive may be in the works

Aug 23, 07 2:04 PM CDT
(Newser) - A National Intelligence Estimate released today reveals that the US intelligence community doubts Iraqi PM Nouri al-Maliki has the ability to lead the country effectively, CNN reports. Coming one day after President Bush defended Maliki in a speech, the report by US intelligence agencies also expresses worry over a possible... More »

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Iraq • Iran • Syria • insurgents • security • intelligence • Nouri al-Maliki • Iraq government • extremism • National Intelligence Estimate

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