The Media: Bad Intelligence with No Confidence

Seton Motley
December 10th, 2007 9:46 AM
To the MSM, any anti-American angle is a good one  A Brave Nuclear WorldThe media's reaction to the November 2007 National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear weapon program has been as grandiose as it is selective, inaccurate and wrong-headed.The single excerpt they chose to trumpet, that the report proffers with "high confidence" that Iran halted weapons development in 2003, maximized their…
 

Media Very Selective As to When They Choose to Believe the NIE

Seton Motley
December 5th, 2007 9:54 PM
Thomas Fingar, the Deputy Director of Analysis for the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE), is the media rock star of the moment. Why? For the just released NIE assessment he co-authored that proffers with "high confidence" that Iranian nuclear weapon development came to a halt in 2003. This lands him myriad press plaudits because it affords them yet another opportunity to bash President George…