During his public appearances, Morin criticized the US National Intelligence Estimate on Iran's nuclear program from November.

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Perhaps Obama was relying on the US's 2007 National Intelligence Estimate about Iran's nuclear weapons program.

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The company books half its revenues from the U.S. government, namely the NextView satellite imagery program, run by the Department of Defense's National Geospatial-Intelligence Agency (NGA).

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