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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.

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NIE Used by Obama Found Iran Long-Range Missile Capacity toTake 3-5 Years Longer

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...

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