Disgrace: US Intelligence Agencies Looking to Rewrite 2007 NIE

What a disgrace, while Bush was President the politicized NIE was ised by the media and the left to aid and abet the Iranian Nuclear weapons program, now that Obama is President there are calls for a re-write:

WASHINGTON (Reuters) - U.S. spy agencies are considering whether to rewrite a controversial 2007 intelligence report that asserted Tehran halted its efforts to build nuclear weapons in 2003, the Wall Street Journal reported Friday.

The possible reassessment comes as pressure is mounting from Congress and among U.S. allies for the Obama administration to redo the 2007 assessment, after last month's revelation of a second uranium enrichment plant in Iran.German, French and British intelligence agencies have all disputed the conclusions of the 2007 National Intelligence Estimate, or NIE, in recent months, the Journal said, citing European officials briefed on the exchanges.

The report reversed earlier findings that Iran was pursuing a nuclear-weapons program. It found with "high confidence" that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003, and with "moderate confidence" that it hadn't been restarted as of mid-2007.

Of course at the time that didn't stop candidate Obama and Biden from exploiting the report in 2007:

What Obama said:

By reporting that Iran halted its nuclear weapon development program four years ago because of international pressure, the new National Intelligence Estimate makes a compelling case for less saber-rattling and more direct diplomacy. The juxtaposition of this NIE with the president's suggestion of World War III serves as an important reminder of what we learned with the 2002 National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq: members of Congress must carefully read the intelligence before giving the President any justification to use military force.

He also said:

I think Iran continues to be a threat to some of its neighbors in the region. ... But it is absolutely clear that this administration and President Bush continues to not let facts get in the way of his ideology. "

So here we are, Obama either accepted the report hook line and sinker, which reflects on his supposed critical thinking and judgment, or he he was privately skeptical but risked a future nuclear holocaust for political gain. Great choices! Oh by the way there is guy known as Joe Biden said:

"What we learned yesterday from the N.I.E. and what President Bush has said in the past I find extremely troubling. Here in October, President Bush raised the specter of World War III with Iran because, as he said, its pursuit of a nuclear weapon — months after he'd been told by our intelligence community it's likely that Iran had halted its weapons program as far back as 2003.

"And after all we've been through, for this president to knowingly disregard or once again misrepresent intelligence about the issue of war and peace, I find it outrageous. This is exactly what he did — exactly what he did in the run-up to the war in Iraq in consistently exaggerating the intelligence that he had available to him, suggesting that Iraq had W.M.D.; the vice president saying Iraq had reconstituted its nuclear weapons program; and so on...

"It further undermines America's credibility around the world, which is at an all-time low, and it undermines the credibility here at home."

Outrageous Indeed.