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President Bush drew sporadic, startling criticism Tuesday night from Republican White House hopefuls unhappy with his handling of the Iraq war, his diplomatic style and his approach to immigration.
The relentless drumbeat in Washington for the past few months calling for war with Iran to pre-empt Tehran's drive to obtain nuclear weapons has been silenced. A brief National Intelligence Estimate on Iran prepared by the United States' 16 intelligence agencies and published on …
Four former CIA officials who provided intelligence information to past presidents described as preposterous President Bush's claim that he was unaware until very recently that Iran had stopped its nuclear weapons program in 2003.
The latest National Intelligence Estimate on Iran was the final factor in a military equation that now appears to guarantee that there will be no war with Iran during the Bush administration.
Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said Tuesday that Vice President Dick Cheney's muscular approach toward Iran has been discredited by a new U.S. intelligence report that concluded Iran is no longer trying to build nuclear weapons.
"Are you telling me a president who is briefed every single morning, who is fixated on Iran, is not told back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies in the United States government said they had abandoned their effort for a nuclear weapon in '03? …
Iran halted its nuclear weapons programme in 2003 and has not restarted it since, a stunning new assessment released yesterday by intelligence agencies in the United States has found.
Until Monday, 2008 seemed to be a year destined to be consumed, at least when it comes to foreign policy, by the prospects of confrontation with Iran.
Iran halted work toward a nuclear weapon under international scrutiny in 2003 and is unlikely to be able to produce enough enriched uranium for a bomb until 2010 to 2015, a U.S. intelligence report says.
The new National Intelligence Estimate concludes that the intelligence community honestly doesn't know if Iran is pursuing a nuclear weapon actively but that some of the elements are there for them to do so if they wanted.
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - A new U.S.
U.S. intelligence agencies concluded in findings released on Monday that Iran stopped its nuclear weapons development program in 2003. Following are highlights of the National Intelligence Estimate's key judgments.
A new assessment by US intelligence agencies concludes Iran shelved it's nuclear weapons program over four years ago.
Barely a quarter of Iraqis say their security has improved in the past six months, a negative assessment of the surge in U.S. forces that reflects worsening public attitudes across a range of measures, even as authorities report some progress curtailing violence.
President George W. Bush is fond of reminding us that no terrorist attacks have occurred on domestic soil since 9/11. But has the Administration's "war on terror" actually made us safer?
The National Security Network, a group of national-security experts critical of the surge from the progressive wing of U.S. politics has issued its own fact check of Gen. David Petraeus's testimony so far.
Are you here to communicate your own view, that of the White House, or both? Please name all the people with whom you have had communications in preparing for this testimony. What does the White House expect from your testimony?
One of Blumenthal's sources put it more bluntly, "Bush didn't give a @!$%# about the intelligence. He had his mind made up."
The threshold question in any war is: What are we fighting for? Our troops, especially, deserve a convincing answer.
The U.S. military's claim that violence has decreased sharply in Iraq in recent months has come under scrutiny from many experts within and outside the government, who contend that some of the underlying statistics are questionable and selectively ignore negative trends.
On Sept. 18, 2002, CIA director George Tenet briefed President Bush in the Oval Office on top-secret intelligence that did not have weapons of mass destruction, according to two former senior CIA officers.
Congress today is set to begin holding a series of hearings related to the war in Iraq with an open Senate Foreign Relations Committee hearing on the Government Accountability Office's report assessing the political and military progress in Iraq.
Despite his administration's ongoing troop surge, President Bush's policy in Iraq is causing the situation in that nation to deteriorate, according to Democratic House Speaker Nancy Pelosi.
Petraeus succeeded in having the security judgments softened to reflect improvements in recent months.
One way to look at the National Intelligence Estimate on Iraq released this week is to review what it describes as the best-case scenario.
The media's coverage of two recent events — the release of the new National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iraq and Sen.
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