{"id":2682,"date":"2007-11-09T11:40:41","date_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:40:41","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2682"},"modified":"2007-11-09T11:57:29","modified_gmt":"2007-11-09T16:57:29","slug":"cheney-and-mofaz-manipulate-intelligence-on-iran","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2682","title":{"rendered":"Cheney and Mofaz manipulate intelligence on Iran"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE<br \/>\n<a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/porter\/?articleid=11879\"> by Gareth Porter<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence    community to remove dissenting judgments on the Iranian nuclear program, and thus make the document more supportive of US Vice President Dick Cheney&#8217;s militarily aggressive policy toward Iran, according to accounts of the process provided by participants to two former Central Intelligence Agency officers.<\/p>\n<p>But this pressure on intelligence analysts, obviously instigated by Cheney himself, has not produced a draft estimate without those dissenting views, these sources say. The White House has now apparently decided to release the unsatisfactory draft NIE, but without making its key findings public.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.antiwar.com\/porter\/?articleid=11879\">Read the report<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.afterdowningstreet.org\/cheney\">Impeach Cheney Now!<\/a><br \/>\n<\/strong><\/p>\n<p><strong>Israel calls for ElBaradei\u2019s removal : Bush, Sarkozy seek sustained pressure on Iran<br \/>\n<em> Daily Times<\/em> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2007%5C11%5C09%5Cstory_9-11-2007_pg4_17\">9 November 2007<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p>ElBaradei should go: Israeli Deputy Prime Minister Shaul Mofaz called Thursday for Mohamed ElBaradei to be removed as head of the UN nuclear watchdog, saying he had turned a blind eye to Iran\u2019s nuclear ambitions. The call for ElBaradei\u2019s dismissal comes just days before the International Atomic Energy Agency is due to publish a new report on Iran\u2019s nuclear programme, to serve as a key part of further discussions at the United Nations on whether to impose a third set of sanctions on Tehran.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe policies followed by ElBaradei endanger world peace. His irresponsible attitude of sticking his head in the sand over Iran\u2019s nuclear programme should lead to his impeachment,\u201d Mofaz told public radio from Washington. ElBaradei raised the ire of many Israeli officials after telling France\u2019s Le Monde newspaper that Iran would need \u201cbetween three and eight years\u201d to develop a nuclear bomb and that there were was no immediate threat.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.dailytimes.com.pk\/default.asp?page=2007%5C11%5C09%5Cstory_9-11-2007_pg4_17\">Read the report<\/a> | <a href=\"http:\/\/www.jewishvoiceforpeace.org\/publish\/article_17.shtml\">End US Military Aid to Israel<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Cheney Tried to Stifle Dissent in Iran NIE by Gareth Porter A National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran has been held up for more than a year in an effort to force the intelligence community to remove dissenting judgments on &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/?p=2682\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":false,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2682","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/pdXTf-Hg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=2682"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2682\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=2682"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=2682"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/karmalised.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=2682"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}