The Iranians just launched an earth orbiting satellite. How can that be, since just last month our intelligence agency said that Iran was at lest two or three years away from launching a satellite? Last year our National Intelligence Assessment said the Iranians had suspended their nuclear weapons program back in 2003. Of course that was a purely political ploy meant to embarrass President Bush. Our intelligence agencies are obviously inept, and have been since the Church Committee damaged them back during the Carter era. Democrats have long argued that we don't need intelligence because of the potential harm those agencies might do to our democracy. Maybe Obama will recognize the failure of our intelligence agencies and reform them. But, I doubt that he will.