Cheney distorts Iran intelligence.

In an interview with ABC News today, Vice President Cheney said that Iran has perhaps resumed its program to develop a nuclear weapon:

”What it (the NIE) says is that they have definitely had in the past a program to develop a nuclear warhead; that it would appear that they stopped that weaponization process in 2003. We don’t know whether or not they’ve restarted,” he said.

”What we do know is that they had then, and have now, a process by which they’re trying to enrich uranium, which is the key obstacle they’ve got to overcome in order to have a nuclear weapon,” he added. ”They’ve been working at it for years.”

What Cheney failed to mention is that the NIE also stated that “Tehran had not restarted its nuclear weapons program as of mid-2007” and is “less determined to develop nuclear weapons than we have been judging since 2005.”