Iran: threat, menace, or sensitive to diplomacy?

[mindstalk]

Bush: "We must stop Iran's nuclear weapons program!"

All 16 (!) US spy agencies: "Mission accomplished, they stopped in 2003."

Rather than painting Iran as a rogue, irrational nation determined to join the club of nations with the bomb, the estimate states Iran’s “decisions are guided by a cost-benefit approach rather than a rush to a weapon irrespective of the political, economic and military costs.”

Comments

[tempter.livejournal.com]

I'm curious which 16 the article is referring to. It doesn't mention them by name.

[mindstalk.livejournal.com]

http://www.intelligence.gov/1-members.shtml

Look on the left. First two are individuals, but then the agencies.

# Air Force Intelligence
# Army Intelligence
# Central Intelligence Agency
# Coast Guard Intelligence
# Defense Intelligence Agency
# Department of Energy
# Department of Homeland Security
# Department of State
# Department of the Treasury
# Drug Enforcement Administration
# Federal Bureau of Investigation
# Marine Corps Intelligence
# National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency
# National Reconnaissance Office
# National Security Agency
# Navy Intelligence

[tempter.livejournal.com]

Well, OK, I guess I just argue the semantics. "Memebers of the intelligence community" is a little different than "spy agencies" in my mind. I have a hard time considering the DoE to be the latter, for example, though I'm sure it's among the former.