Lame duck guts.

• Author: Peters, Charles
• Position: TILTING at windmills

The new National Intelligence Estimate stating that Iran stopped trying to develop a nuclear weapon in 2003 has been hated as a sign of a newly courageous intelligence community in articles in the New York Times and the Wall Street Journal. I hope the articles are right, but I have this word of caution: Bureaucrats always become more courageous in the final months of a presidency. The politicians who would have cracked down on them have left, are leaving soon, or are preoccupied with sending out their...