National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley Holds a White House News Briefing
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National Security Advisor Stephen J. Hadley Holds a White House News Briefing
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NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR HADLEY HOLDS A WHITE HOUSE NEWS BRIEFINGDECEMBER 3, 2007SPEAKER: NATIONAL SECURITY ADVISOR STEPHEN J. HADLEY[*] HADLEY: Good afternoon. I'm Steve Hadley, the president's national security adviser. I want to talk a little bit about the recent national intelligence estimate that was released to the executive branch and to the Congress today. There was an earlier briefing this afternoon by the deputy director of national intelligence, Don Kerr, and also by the director of central intelligence, Mike Hayden. And I wanted to give a little bit more context and set the findings of the NIE in a broader historical perspective.The introduction's going to go on a little bit. There's a lot to tell. This is a complicated estimate. The unclassified key judgments that were released today are a little difficult to sort through, and I want to try to lay this out for everybody so I'll have an opening statement, probably 15-20 minutes, but there'll be lots of time to answer questions at the end.The director of national intelligence has today released the unclassified key judgments from the intelligence community's latest estimate of Iran's nuclear weapons efforts and its uranium enrichment program.The classified version of this national intelligence estimate was briefed to the president last Wednesday, November 28, and has been delivered to relevant congressional committees this morning.On balance the estimate is good news. On the one hand, it confirms that we were right to be worried about Iran seeking to develop nuclear weapons. On the o...See the full content of this document
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