The New York Sun describes Tom Fingar as a State Department employee
who was an expert on China and Germany. Mr Fingar's bio shows no
experience in the middle east or its geopolitics.
The New York Sun describes Vann Van Diepen, one of the estimates
main authors, as having spent the last five years trying to get
America to accept Iran's right to enrich uranium. Mr. Van Diepen no
doubt reckons that in helping push the estimate through the system, he
has succeeded in influencing the policy debate in Washington. The
bureaucrats may even think they are stopping another war. Van
Diepen's bio shows no experience in Iranian geopolitics.
The Wall Street Journal writes:
Kenneth Brill served as the US Ambassador to the International
Atomic Energy Agency (the IAEA). This is an agency that has served to
enable Iranian's quest for nuclear weapons. The head of the IAEA,
Mohammed ElBaradei, has even been called a friend by the Iranian
regime. As he should be, for he has been an enabler of its nuclear
weapons program and has stiff-armed European Union diplomats who have
worked to restrain Iran. John Bolton recalls in his recent memoir that
then-Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage "described Brill's
efforts in Vienna, or lack thereof, as 'bull -- .'" Mr. Brill was
"retired" from the State Department by Colin Powell before being
rehired, over considerable internal and public protest, as head of the
National Counter-Proliferation Center by then-National Intelligence
Director John Negroponte.
http://mikemoseley.townhall.com/g/c2f02f6d-7309-48bd-b54f-67b28ce5776a
On Dec 9, 2007 6:00 AM, Dana <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> oh! I can help you with that! ::beams::
>
> Fingar, Van Diepen and Kenneth Brill, a former US ambassador to the
> International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA), were able to put out what
> they regard as an objective assessment because those occupying senior
> roles in the Bush administration had changed. Paul Wolfowitz, John
> Bolton, Douglas Feith and Donald Rumsfeld have given way to those who
> oppose war with Iran, including Robert Gates, the defence secretary
> and former CIA director, and the secretary of state, Condoleezza Rice.
>
> Only the vice-president, Dick Cheney, remains to advocate military
> strikes against Iran. Wolfowitz, out of work since resigning from the
> World Bank earlier this year, has been invited back into the
> administration by Rice as an adviser on WMD, but that is an act of
> pity for an old mentor, not a shift in power to the neocons.
>
> http://www.guardian.co.uk/iran/story/0,,2224281,00.html
>
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