At his news conference, President Bush just said that he didn’t know the findings of the new National Intelligence Estimate on Iran when he said, on October 17, “I believe they want to have the capacity, the knowledge, in order to make a nuclear weapon…So I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing them from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” After the NIE was released yesterday, when reporters went back to the president’s statements, his emphasis on “the knowledge” seemed to suggest that Bush must have known about the new intelligence and was tailoring his words to fit the new conclusions. But he says he did not.