Reply #16: It's the timing of the release of the information and how it's being applied that are news

[berni_mccoy]

The Obama administration is actually using the intelligence to resolve the problem. From the NY Times article on the story:

http://www.nytimes.com/2009/09/26/world/middleeast/26nuke.html?_r=2&hp

Mr. Obama said he had withheld making the intelligence public for months because it “is very important in these kind of high-stakes situations to make sure the intelligence is right”— a clear allusion to former President George W. Bush’s release of intelligence on Iraq seven years ago this month that proved baseless. Mr. Obama’s hand was forced, however, after Iran, apparently learning that the site had been discovered by Western intelligence, delivered a vague, terse letter to the International Atomic Energy Agency on Monday disclosing that it was building a second plant, one that it had never mentioned during years of inspections.