Fastow's job was to confirm those previous reports--and drag Lay into the same circle of knowledge.

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And, like the Vick negotiations, the pursuit was kept in a tight circle of people with that knowledge.

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The truth is that neither the U.S. intelligence community, nor the International Atomic Energy Agency, nor anybody else outside a very small circle in Iran has certain knowledge about the current state of Irans nuclear-weapons program, or how far it is from producing one or more usable devices.

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