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Source: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/04/AR2007120402408.html
Lessons of Iraq Aided Intelligence on Iran
[Washington Post] Joby Warrick and Walter Pincus - The starkly different view of Iran's nuclear program that emerged from U.S. spy agencies this week was the product of a surge in clandestine intelligence-gathering in Iran as well as radical changes in the way the intelligence community analyzes information. Director of National Intelligence Mike McConnell required agencies to consult more sources, to say precisely what they know and how they know it, and to acknowledge, to a degree previously unheard of, what they do not know.