WikiLeaks and the 2007 Iran NIE – Part 1    It contradicted the
previous NIE report from 2005, which had judged with “high
confidence” that “Iran currently is determined to develop
nuclear weapons despite its international obligations and
international pressure”.  In his memoirs, then-US president
George W Bush complained that the NIE “tied my hands on the
military side … how could I possibly explain using the military
to destroy the nuclear facilities of a country the intelligence
community said had no active nuclear weapons program?”.  Fingar
accepted the Sam Adams Award in a ceremony at the Oxford Union,
which was attended by previous winners. The 2010 winner,
WikiLeaks editor-in-chief Julian Assange, spoke via video-link
from the Ecuadorian Embassy in London. Assange applauded
Fingar for “trying to correct the movement towards war with Iran
based on lies”.  Instead of welcoming the NIE’s findings as good
news for “international peace and security”, the NIE panicked
Western governments who feared the repor