Farewell. The Flying Pig Has Left The Building.

Steve Hynd, August 16, 2012

After four years on the Typepad site, eight years total blogging, Newshoggers is closing it's doors today. We've been coasting the last year or so, with many of us moving on to bigger projects (Hey, Eric!) or simply running out of blogging enthusiasm, and it's time to give the old flying pig a rest.

We've done okay over those eight years, although never being quite PC enough to gain wider acceptance from the partisan "party right or wrong" crowds. We like to think we moved political conversations a little, on the ever-present wish to rush to war with Iran, on the need for a real Left that isn't licking corporatist Dem boots every cycle, on America's foreign misadventures in Afghanistan and Iraq. We like to think we made a small difference while writing under that flying pig banner. We did pretty good for a bunch with no ties to big-party apparatuses or think tanks.

Those eight years of blogging will still exist. Because we're ending this typepad account, we've been archiving the typepad blog here. And the original blogger archive is still here. There will still be new content from the old 'hoggers crew too. Ron writes for The Moderate Voice, I post at The Agonist and Eric Martin's lucid foreign policy thoughts can be read at Democracy Arsenal.

I'd like to thank all our regular commenters, readers and the other bloggers who regularly linked to our posts over the years to agree or disagree. You all made writing for 'hoggers an amazingly fun and stimulating experience.

Thank you very much.

Note: This is an archive copy of Newshoggers. Most of the pictures are gone but the words are all here. There may be some occasional new content, John may do some posts and Ron will cross post some of his contributions to The Moderate Voice so check back.


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Saturday, August 8, 2009

Iran incapable of HEU until 2013: INR

By Fester:


The State Department has a small intelligence unit, the INR, that got the threat assessment of Iraqi WMDs far closer to reality than pretty much any other US intelligence bureau.  They did not see much of a threat, perhaps the intention of developping future capability, but minimal capability at most in 2003.  The INR is evaluating the Iranian nuclear program, and they are making the same capability based judgement: not much of a threat today, and not much of a threat for the next five years either. 


This is via Secrecy News as theyreleased a DNI briefing to Congress from this winter:


Iran HEU Cability  Right now Iranian nuclear capability seems to be entering the realm of nuclear fusion --- just a few more years from today, despite the fact that a few years ago, today was a few more years from then. 



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