Rewriting Past Intelligence Mistakes

Iranian technicians look on as an International Atomic Energy Agency inspector, foreground, checks a uranium facility in 2005. AFP/Getty Images

U.S. Considers a New Assessment of Iran Threat -- Wall Street Journal

Amid Pressure After Latest Nuclear Revelations, Spy Agencies Rethink a 2007 Judgment That Weapons Effort Had Been Halted.

WASHINGTON -- 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, current and former U.S. intelligence officials say.

The intelligence agencies' rethink comes as pressure is mounting on Capitol Hill, and among U.S. allies, for the Obama administration to redo the 2007 assessment, after a string of recent revelations about Tehran's nuclear program.

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My Comment: The 2007 National Intelligence Estimate and conclusions were always in dispute, the only difference is that there is more information (now) on making a more accurate assessment.

With the discovery of a secret nuclear enrichment plant outside of Qom, this debate on Iran's intent has now become moot. Iran has a nuclear program whose intent is to produce enriched uranium. The only question that people should be asking now is .... are there more "secret" nuclear sites, and what is Iran's timetable.