“On December 3, 2007, the director of national intelligence [Mike McConnell] declassified key findings from a new [November 2007] National Intelligence Estimate on Iran. The first key judgment in the report asserted: ‘We judge with high confidence that in the fall of 2003, Tehran halted its nuclear weapons program.’ Only if you went to a footnote did you understand that by ‘nuclear weapons program,’ the intelligence community meant ‘Iran’s nuclear weapons design and weaponization work and covert uranium conversion-related and uranium enrichment-related work’… The community chose not to consider Iran’s very significant declared enrichment efforts in its dramatic opening statement.”
– Dick Cheney, In My Time, Page 478