Hey America! FEEL SAFER W/ INCOMPETENT REPUB IDIOTS IN CHARGE???? (NYT Bombshell Tomorrow!!)

[Beetwasher]

U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Guide

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”

Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. One diplomat said the agency’s technical experts “were shocked” at the public disclosures.

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http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?hp&ex=1162530000&en=1511d6b3da302d4f&ei=5094&partner=homepage

[bluerum]

1. Thats what happens when you shoot all your scientists. nt

[JohnnyLib2]

2. I hope Ted Kennedy roars like hell on this one.

What a set up!

[MrScorpio]

3. Let's see what the fuckers who spouted off about Clinton

And their accusation that he gave missile secrets to the Chinese have to say about this shit.

What's that?






Crickets?

[BattyDem]

4. Quiet, isn't it?

[Catherine Vincent]

5. Let me head over to freeperville right now....

[Beetwasher]

6. Did I Miss Something?

:shrug:

[applegrove]

7. My gosh. My oh my. Is there any adult in the government?

[mnhtnbb]

9. make that competent adult

[brer cat]

12. You have got to be kidding if you even ask!

lol

[Selatius]

8. Bush government publishes "Atom Bombs for Dummies" n/t

[mnhtnbb]

10. Is that on Bush's reading list?

[brer cat]

13. My Pet Goat for dummies?

I'm sure that's out by now.

Or, how to make a bomb for dummies by Rummy?

[Beetwasher]

11. This SHOULD Be The Fucking STAKE in the HEART of these Monsters!!

"The director of national intelligence, John D. Negroponte, had resisted setting up the Web site, which some intelligence officials felt implicitly raised questions about the competence and judgment of government analysts. But President Bush approved the site’s creation after Congressional Republicans proposed legislation to force the documents’ release."

[SlipperySlope]

14. Republicans are all crybabies anyway

[JohnnyLib2]

15. Cat girl 25 went to Freeperville quite awhile ago--

Has she been rounded up, detained, possibly sent to a secret location?

[BootinUp]

16. Heres a good site

I already built one, its all here:

http://www.hcc.mnscu.edu/programs/dept/chem/abomb/index.html






;)

[KharmaTrain]

17. So This Is Drudge's Bombshell???

Pfffft! :rofl:

So Saddam had a copy of Popular Bombmaking from 1990 and this constitutes that he could have dropped a mushroom cloud on American cities in 2003? So we have no real bomb, no plutonium or even a centrafuge...just plans?

This is it? And I thought this was gonna be a two day story? But then the wingnut hate radio is sure to be abuzz tomorrow about how they now have "Saddam's Plans"...and they'll distort and twist the story to fit whatever agenda needs fitting. They gotta keep that nuke boggie man out there or the last remaining pilar of this despicable war falls away.

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

18. That's not the point at all.

The point is that they had a bunch of old pre-1991 documents relating to Saddam's previous attempts to buils a nuke. Most of this stuff was in Arabic and and had never been translated (because the Bushies don't have enough Arabic translators). But the Bushies were so sure these documents contained proof of the existence of WMD-related programs that they put them out there on the Internets. Only afterwards did they discover there was really sensitive stuff in there that would help Iran with their nuclear research. So basically what they did is give nuke secrets to Iran and any other tin-pot dictators or terrorist groups.

And violating the Patriot Act, in the process...

[stepnw1f]

19. They are So Deranged They Are Stupid

Did Hitler fuck up alot too because of his ego?

[The Velveteen Ocelot]

21. Yes. He micromanaged his generals and made a lot of bad decisions.

Some historians think that his refusal to allow the first jet airplane, the Messerschmitt-262, to be used as a fighter instead of a bomber was a major factor in the Nazis' defeat.

[KharmaTrain]

20. As Long As The Let Dr. Khan Run Free

Did it matter where those documents came from...Teheran could call the factory direct.

Even if they did have WMD designs, tell us something we and the UN didn't know in 1991? What's that have to do with 2003?

Also so what if they have the plans...look at North Korea...they have plans and from what we see their nuke probably was a dud. It takes more than a schematic to make a bomb...and Saddam may have had the people to make a bomb prior to '91 and surely didn't afterwards.

Nonetheless, I do like the spin that this was giving away secrets and violating the Patriot act...just another example of this regime's wreckless handling of intelligence that has not only made us less safe, but all but defanged the CIA as an effective espionage agency.

[Humor_In_Cuneiform]

22. Gosh it would be so easy to make a fear ad to scare the bejeebers outa

the people about * et al.

Katrina would be a major part of it.

ie

Whose FEMA do you want coming to your rescue if disaster strikes in YOUR neighborhood??

*'s horse wrangling cronies, or grown-ups like Witt or whatever the prior one under Clinton was? (and/or someone similar who the Dems will put at the job once in power)

[Rex]

23. We gave the Iranians blueprints on how to make a nuke.

I believe it was during Reagan's first term. Nothing amazes me anymore.

[opihimoimoi]

25. OMG, we publish this on the internet???? WTF?

Is there no one in Charge??

[Rex]

28. No one.

:( Well, no one with brains.

[opihimoimoi]

29. Triple Damn

:puke: :puke: :puke:

[Jack Rabbit]

24. Excuse me while I pick my lower jaw up off the floor

I had an MI MOS when I was in the army. This is not how to handle classified documents.

I can't believe that these idiots are entrusted with this kind of information.

It was really dumb when DCI Porter Goss said that he knew where Osama was. This tops that.

[Beetwasher]

26. Kick

.

[AngryAmish]

27. Saddam had plans for a nuke and BUSH publishs it?

Now that is smart...