December 7, 2007 (LPAC)--President of Vice Dick Cheney confirmed in his own words the report, 'Behind the Iran National Intelligence Estimate', issued Wednesday by LPAC that the National Intelligence Estimate (NIE) on Iran, concluding that Iran had scrapped its nuclear weapons research in 2003, was released under the threat from the intelligence community that they were prepared to leak it, regardless of the legal consequences, in order to stop the mad Veep from launching a new war. In an interview with Politico, published yesterday, Cheney said the NIE was released because "it was not likely to stay classified for long anyway.... Everything leaks."

However, as LPAC also reported, Cheney was fighting the new intelligence reading to the end. The White House admitted Wednesday that Mike McConnell, the Director of National Intelligence, reported the new evaluation to the White House in August. David Sanger of the The New York Times reports today that Cheney fiercely objected to the new intelligence report, and to the conclusion of a "red team" put together by the CIA and other intelligence agencies to "determine if the new information might have been part of an elaborate disinformation campaign mounted by Iran to derail the effort to impose sanctions against it. In the end, American intelligence officials rejected that theory." Just two weeks ago, Sanger reports, a meeting was called in the White House situation room, "in which the notes and deliberations (from the "red team") were described to the most senior members of President Bush's national security team, including Vice President Dick Cheney. `It was a pretty vivid exchange,' said one participant in the conversation."