Bush Administration and GOP make guide to build Atomic Bomb freely available to terrorists

[ck4829]

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 had 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.

Thursday 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.

http://news.com.com/U.S.+Web+archive+said+to+reveal+nuclear+primer/2100-7348_3-6132220.html

[HereSince1628]

1. More evidence of sheer, unadulterated incompetence by Bushleaguers

Is it ANY wonder that we are neither safe or even a wee bit safer yet?

Umm. I can just hear Condi Rice "Well, if anyone had told us which pages contained potentially dangerous nuclear technology, we wouldn't have put it up on the web. Do you think any of us would really do something like that on purpose?"


No Condi, we don't. We think you are so friggin dumb you can't protect the US from the administration's own stupid ineptitude. Five years into GWOT and you haven't even got people able to interpret captured papers.

Or is it just that people who can read it, people like Sibel Edmonds just can't be trusted to cover up Republican mistakes?

[Rocknrule]

2. Next they will make "Anarchy Cookbook" a required high school reading

[LSK]

3. K&R even thou this has been posted before