Podhoretz over at Commentary’s blog on the new NIE assessments:

In other words, a full two years after Iran supposedly called a halt to its nuclear program, the intelligence community was still as sure as it ever is about anything that Iran was determined to build a nuclear arsenal. Why then should we believe it when it now tells us, and with the same “high confidence,” that Iran had already called a halt to its nuclear-weapons program in 2003?

Or why should we believe anyone? Pynchon’s proverbs for paranoids, #3:

If they can get you asking the wrong questions, they don’t have to worry about answers.

(I know I’m abusing Pynchon here.)