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Source: http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2009/may/11/tehrans-nukes/
U.S. Intelligence Community Ignores Iranian Threat
[ Washington TimesEditorial ] At last week's Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearings, former Undersecretary of State for Political Affairs Nicholas Burns said: "There is no question [Iran is] seeking a nuclear weapons capability. No one doubts that." No one? Actually, our own spy agencies belittle the Iranian threat. On March 12, the CIA released a report to Congress that concluded: "We do not know whether Iran currently intends to develop a nuclear weapon." The report essentially reworks the conclusions in a controversial December 2007 U.S. National Intelligence Estimate. New York District Attorney Robert Morgenthau, who also testified at last week's Senate hearing, said the message from Iran was "loud and clear." His investigations of the multibillion-dollar criminal financial schemes Iran is using to finance its programs indicated "it is late in this game and we don't have a lot of time to stop Iran" from developing nuclear weapons and the missiles to deliver them. "The Iranians are deadly serious about proceeding with this program," he said. "It is later than a lot of people think."