Tuesday, February 7, 2012

White House offers little insight on conflicting Iran opinions

This administration has more and more similarities to the Carter Administration. Here is one like those we used to see in Carter's international dealings. That's one advantage to being 72 (and a half!); I haven't just read about Jimmy Carter's presidency, I lived through it at an age to understand what it was like.  Full disclosure: I voted for the man.


Politico  "White House spokesman Jay Carney isn't offering much in the way of explanation for why President Barack Obama and his intelligence chief offered dramatically different opinions in recent days on whether Iran is or is not trying to step up operations on U.S. soil."



" "We don't see any evidence that they have those intentions or capabilities right now," Obama said during a pre-Super Bowl interview Sunday on NBC. 
"However, in testimony to Congress just last week, Director of National Intelligence James Clapper said the consensus of the U.S. intelligence community is that prominent Iranian leaders are moving in that direction."

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