8/23/2006

“In August [23] 2006, Peter Hoekstra [R-MI] released a House intelligence committee report titled ‘Recognizing Iran as a Strategic Threat: An Intelligence Challenge for the United States.’ Written by Frederick Fleitz, former special assistant to [Undersecretary of State] John Bolton, the report asserted that the CIA lacked ‘the ability to acquire essential information necessary to make judgments’ on Tehran’s nuclear program.”

 – Craig Unger, The Fall of the House of Bush, Page 339