Bloggers are buzzing about the release of the NIE report on Iran and the White House’s reaction to it. There’s a lot of buzz out there, but here is the smartest, can’t-miss commentary. Bloggers seem to agree with Thomas Joscelyn, who asked five questions about the NIE here yesterday. He wrote, “Given the poor performance of the U.S. Intelligence Community (“IC”) in drafting previous NIE’s, we should review the IC’s work with a skeptical eye–no matter what conclusions are drawn. Interestingly, the IC now concedes that it is certain Iran had a nuclear weapons program. But that isn’t getting the headlines.” More from Joscelyn here about what changed since 2005. Norman Podhoretz voices his suspicions at Commentary‘s Contentions blog:

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