Back in 2007 the US published a National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) that said that Iran has stopped their nuclear weapon program in 2003. It seemed likely at the time that this NIE was bogus, and was intended to thwart President Bush's attempts to stop the Iranian nuclear weapon program. Leftists, of course, applauded the report as further proof that Bush was a deranged war-monger. The leftists were aware of the CIAs animosity toward the Bush Administration, and the attempts by the CIA to prevent Bush's reelection in 2004. Most people are unaware that the CIA and the State Department are bastions of the left wing. Now there is a German case involving a supplier to the Iranian Nuclear program (we have long known that the Germans as well as the Russians were helping the Iranians). The German supplier cited the 2007 NIE report as proof that there was no Iranian nuclear weapon program. Now the German intelligence service has intervened saying that there is indeed an Iranian Nuclear Weapon Program. Will Congress now investigate to determine why the NIE came out with an obviously wrong conclusion? Probably not. They want to investigate Cheney regarding an idea for a program to kill or capture al Qaeda leaders. They have no interest in finding out why the CIA tried to subvert the Bush Administration. After all, they did that themselves, even at some risk to the security of the nation.

It is hard to tell where the Obama Administration stands on the issue of an Iranian nuclear weapon. Obama himself said every nation had a right to have a nuclear weapon if they want one. But, Hilliary Clinton recently said that we would not allow Iran to have a nuclear weapon.