America's Watchdogs

Do America's media watchdogs have hopenosis?

One story to focus on, the Iran nuclear program. The last NIE effectively stymied efforts to impose stiffer sanctions on Iran by declaring that Tehran had halted its nuclear weapons program. Since then, however, Iran has been feverishly developing its uranium enrichment capabilities - widely considered the hardest part of making a nuclear bomb - and some experts now believe it has enough fuel for its first bomb.

And then, presto-changeo, miraculously, last week it was disclosed that Iran had already succeeded in making enough fissile material for at least one nuclear bomb. On Sunday, the chairman of the U.S. Joint Chiefs of Staff, Adm. Mike Mullen, told CNN's "State of the Union" show that he believes Iran has enough fissile material for at least one nuclear bomb. "We think they do, quite frankly," Mullen said.

Yet Bush was castigated in fall 2008 for saying Iran was a real danger, and their nuclear program was speeding along.

We were told that Iran couldn't possibly develop a nuclear weapon before ten years out. Sleep comfortable, Israelis, the PRAVDA watchdogs got your back, don't they.

The NIE seems a might bit like a political publication, wouldn't you say? And when Bush said he didn't believe it, who was right? Was Bush lying?

Oh, one more thing, it was the world's nuclear watchdogey that finally blew the whistle, probably didn't want a nuclear device detonated when they said there were noen. After all, everyone would hear the bang.

Tell once again, why there are watchdogs that won't bark? Our press has acted like "the dog that didn't bark" in the Sherlock Holmes mystery Silver Blaze.