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This was an extremely biased and unfair piece so I have added material to balance it. A piece that is only sourced to TomPaine.come and Prados is hardly fair. I did not remove this material but added other information. I will add references later.
==Edit Notes==
I have done a major overhaul of the article to build a reasonably comprehensive list of references, add a little more details to Fleitz's work history and remove some of the extraneous and inaccurate material that had been added in the name of "balance". Specific comments follow.
:stating in its lead editorial on August 24, 2006:''"Anyone who still thinks a nuclear-armed Iran won't pose a serious, and perhaps mortal, threat ought to consult this week's bipartisan staff report from the House Intelligence Committee. Drawing on open-source information and mindful of classified background, the report lays out the history of Iranian nuclear deception and its attempts to promote trouble throughout the Middle East. It notes that "Iran probably has an offensive biological weapons program." And it discusses in detail Iran's support for Hezbollah and other terror groups, as well as its continuing support for insurgents who are killing Americans in Iraq. [http://www.opinionjournal.com/editorial/feature.html?id=110008838]" ''
::this really is not about Fleitz and is more appropriate, if anywhere, for the specific page on the actual report. I have left the mention and link to it on the page but don't see the benefit of the full extract.
:The Washington Times and Fox News also ran positive stories on the report. CNN and NBC News gave the report factual coverage noting its conclusions.
::maybe they did, but this was unreferenced.
:Left wing bloggers were very critical of Fleitz and the Iran report, some of whom claimed without proof that he was the sole author.
::maybe they did but I think is authorship of the report is covered in the section citing what the Washington Post wrote which seems pretty clear on this point to me.
:"More and more it appears that the pattern of manipulation and misuse of intelligence that served the [[Bush administration]] in the drive to start a war with Iraq is being repeated today for its neighbor Iran," Prados wrote. [http://www.tompaine.com/articles/2006/08/25/fixing_iran_intelligence.php].
::again, better on the page about the report I think, I left the preceding par.
:The IAEA did not, however, link the report to Fleitz or name him, although the Washington Post tried to make this linkage.
::see above
:Congressman Hoekstra answered the IAEA allegations by noting that the IAEA's principal objection to the report concerned its reference to the fact that the IAEA reassigned an Iran inspector for concluding Iran had a nuclear weapons program at the request of Iran. The IAEA confirmed that it did this in its letter to Hoekstra. Even though the Washington Post has a copy of the letter, its story incorrectly stated that this individual "had not been moved."
::maybe he did, but this was unreferenced.
:.... and that a draft of the report had been leaked to the Post by U.S. intelligence analysts"
::I deleted the "by U.S. intelligence analysts" - this is not obvious from the WP story as it could have been from the Congressional committee, offices etc;
:that intelligence officials anonymously asserted to the Post
::no they didn't; the Washington Post had a copy of the draft report that they were citing.
That's all for the moment I think. --[[User:Bob Burton|Bob Burton]] 03:22, 25 Sep 2006 (EDT)
