On Friday, Jon Landay had a piece on the latest Iran bamboozlement out of the Bush administration. The State Department's top arms control guy, Robert Joseph, says "We are very close to that point of no return" on Iran's nuclear weapons program.

Remember though, in last gig at the NSC, Bob Joseph was the guy charged with browbeating the CIA into letting the president use the Niger-uranium story in his 2003 state of the union address, even though Agency officials told him and other White House officials repeatedly that there was nothing to it.

Just no reason to take anything Bob Joseph says even remotely seriously on this question. His credibility is shot.