White House Falsely Claims Bush Supports Iran NIE, While He Trashes It Abroad

By Amanda Terkel, Think Progress
Posted on January 15, 2008, Printed on January 15, 2008
http://www.alternet.org/bloggers/http://www.thinkprogress.org//73787/

Today during a White House teleconference, a Fox News reporter asked whether President Bush "fully accepts" the conclusions of the latest NIE, which said that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003.

"Has he admitted the possibility at all in his mind that the analysts may be wrong about this?" asked the reporter. Perino replied that Bush has not expressed "anything but support" for the NIE's findings: