Baker & Wright in 2007,
Peter Baker and Robin Wright. [Staff Writers]. “A Blow to Bush’s Tehran Policy.” The Washington Post. December 4, 2007. p. A1. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/12/03/AR2007120302210.html.
Accessed December 4, 2007.

“It’s a little head-spinning,” said Daniel Benjamin, an official on President Bill Clinton’s National Security Council. “Everybody’s going to be trying to scratch their heads and figure out what comes next.”

Myers in 2007,
Steven Lee Myers. [Staff Writer]. “An Assessment Jars A Foreign Policy Debate About Iran.” The New York Times. December 4, 2007. http://www.nytimes.com/2007/12/04/washington/04assess.html. Accessed December 4, 2007.

Rarely, if ever, has a single intelligence report so completely, so suddenly, and so surprisingly altered a foreign policy debate here.

Miller in 2007,
Greg Miller. [Staff Writer]. “Iran’s Nuclear Ambitions on Hold, U.S. Agencies Conclude.” Los Angeles Times. December 4, 2007. http://www.latimes.com/news/nationworld/world/la-fg-iran4dec04,0,2695315.story.
Accessed December 4, 2007.

Asked what effect the document might have on the debate within the Bush administration, Bolton said: “There really isn’t any debate. Secretary Rice and Secretary Gates have fundamentally won. This is an NIE very conveniently teed up for what the administration has been doing.”