"Rumsfeld's goal was to get a capability in place to take on a high-value target a standup group to hit quickly," a former high-level intelligence official told me.
"Rumsfeld's goal was to get a capability in place to take on a high-value target — a standup group to hit quickly," a former high-level intelligence official told me.
A special-access program, or SAP — subject to the Defense Department's most stringent level of security — was set up, with an office in a secure area of the Pentagon … "Rumsfeld's goal was to get a capability in place to take on a high-value target — a standup group to hit quickly," a former high-level intelligence official told me.
"All I know as a police officer out there fighting terrorism – it's the same for colleagues fighting serious crime – is that we've got a degrading capability … In the post-Snowden world, there are two dynamics.
"We're not a huge deal bigger than we used to be, but we've got a lot more capability," he says.
6. (S) The King stressed that it was critical that we not allow Iran to get a nuclear capability.
But there is a counterargument: Why would Iran believe the threat if the United States, having said it would never allow Iran to get a nuclear capability, then allowed it?
In the 1960's, when China was developing its nuclear weapons program, there was some discussion of whether to destroy it to prevent China from getting a nuclear capability.
In a television interview two weeks ago, Mr. Romney seemed to forget his position that he would halt Iran from getting a nuclear "capability" — something it would reach long before it had a weapon — and sounded like he was in agreement with the president that he would simply stop Iran from gaining a weapon.
We tried a couple of times to actually get a small capability, but it was — it's kind of hard to get it through the Congressional Budget process, anyway.
