Wednesday, April 7, 2010 as of 11:14 AM ET
National Intelligence Estimates (NIEs) are United States federal government documents that are the authoritative assessment of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) on intelligence related to a particular national security issue.
Read More at Wikipedia ›President Obama , in reaching his decision to ditch a missile defense shield in Eastern Europe, used information from a May 2009 National Intelligence Estimate that said Iran would take three to five years longer than originally anticipated to build a long-range missile system, a senior administration official confirmed Friday.
Unclear, however, is whether that estimate was paired with information contained in a "secret" document leaked from the International Atomic Energy Agency that Iran has the ability to make a nuclear bomb and is developing a missile system to carry it."We ordered up a full scrub of the intelligence as part of our zero-based review on missile defense," the administration official told FOX News, declining to "read out" any intelligence from the NIE. According to Reuters, the NIE deemed Iran unlikely to have intercontinental missile capability until 2015 to 2020, which is further out than the October 2007 NIE that concluded that Iran could develop that long-range cap...The Obama administration and the Taliban each voiced readiness Thursday to enter peace talks while pledging to carry on with a decade of military conflict in Afghani...
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Christian Whiton on whether this visit will have an impact on nuclear talks
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U.S. intelligence agencies believe Iranian leaders are involved in a divisive debate over whether to develop atomic weapons in light of international sanctions, a U....
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Pakistan , North Korea and a former weapons scientist from the Soviet Union reportedly all helped Iran with its nuclear weapons quest, according to an impending U.N....
The U.N. nuclear atomic energy agency says that Iran is suspected of conducting secret experiments whose sole purpose can only be the development of nuclear arms.The...
Military intelligence officers were scrambling a year ago to collect and analyze the social, economic and tribal ins and outs of each valley and hamlet in Afghanista...
Christian Whiton weighs in
Vice president's blaming the US and Bush administration for previous lack of international pressure on Iran continues to spark outrage
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The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans for negotiating with the Taliban, confident that talks offer the best chance to end the 10-year-old war in Afghan...
The Obama administration is expressing new confidence that talks with the Taliban next week offer the best chance yet to end the 10-year-old war in Afghanistan, desp...
The Obama administration is moving ahead with plans for negotiating with the Taliban , confident that talks offer the best chance to end the 10-year-old war in Afgha...
Lt. Col. Tony Shaffer discusses the need for background checks despite Afghan Army attrition
Drought, floods and a lack of fresh water may cause significant global instability and conflict in the coming decades as developing countries scramble to meet demand...
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