But new intelligence reports delivered to the White House say that the country has deliberately stopped short of the critical last steps to make a bomb.
On Thursday, the intelligence was delivered to the IAEA in Vienna, and US, British and French briefers made roughly the same presentation to Russian, German and Chinese officials that evening.
In a single 17-sentence document, the intelligence briefing delivered to President Bush in August 2001 spells out the who, hints at the what and points toward the where of the terrorist attacks on New York and Washington that followed 36 days later.
But I am willing to overlook these infinitesimally small flaws in return for the ceaseless flow of wit, invention and intelligence being delivered to me via a set of performances so finely calibrated, by turn so careful, so showy, so heartbreaking, so hilarious, and always so attuned to each other that together their story is even greater than the sum of its astonishing parts.
On Snowden, because Putin is a tough Cold War-era KGB colonel pleased to have a big propaganda and intelligence asset delivered to him on a silver platter.
This was about telling [agencies in the executive branch] that we're serious". Part of the dispute with the White House appears to center on committee requests for highly classified intelligence reports -- known as the president's daily brief -- that summarize the most critical international developments and new intelligence and are delivered to the president each morning.
It seems to lie behind a set of vague allegations from the Senate Majority Leader to the director of the FBI and a report that intelligence agencies have delivered to the president and president-elect".
The plane was hit by a surface-to-air missile fired from separatist-held territory by a sophisticated Buk launcher that Western intelligence says was delivered to the insurgents by Russia.
Instead, they call on robots and artificial intelligence to have it delivered to their door.
A classified version of this intelligence has now been delivered to both the President and the President-elect.
