New Intel: Yes, Iran Making a Bomb

Any guesses as to why that National Intelligence Review from 2007 that said that Iran had halted work on a nuclear bomb was just recently revised? Obviously it is no longer necessary to embarrass a President named Bush, but that is more likely a convenient detail. My guess is that it needed to get revised in order to keep our intelligence community from looking really really bad in light of this:

Iran: Tehran Has Advanced Nuclear-Bomb Plans - Intelligence Dossier
Stratfor Today »-->January 25, 2010
There is a secret military branch of Iran’s nuclear research program that answers to the Defense Ministry, Tehran plans to develop a nuclear bomb and those plans are advanced, Spiegel reported Jan. 25, citing an intelligence dossier built from sources in Iran and high-level defectors. The document is reportedly being studied by diplomatic circles in the United States, Israel and Germany. At the heart of Iranian bomb development is a center that is a suborganization of Tehran’s Defense Ministry known as the FEDAT, or Department for Expanded High-Technology Applications, and the country’s nuclear energy agency. The agency supervises uranium enrichment and the FEDAT focuses on the construction of a nuclear warhead that will reportedly be used in Shahab missiles. The Iranian government has reportedly classified the technology as “feasible.”

More here. We still look bad, but more for the dumb political games than for ineptitude, although maybe for that too.