Pelosi: Nuke posts from 'putting partisan political considerations above national security'

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Pelosi: 'Decision to Put Nuclear Weapons Information on the Internet Is a Serious Security Breach'

11/3/2006 2:28:00 PM
http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75679

Contact: Brendan Daly or Jennifer Crider, 202-226-7616, both of the Office of House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 /U.S. Newswire/ -- House Democratic Leader Nancy Pelosi released the following statement today on news reports that a Bush Administration-mandated government Web site posted information that served as a guide to building an atom bomb:

"The decision to put nuclear weapons information on a government Web site accessible to anyone in the world is a serious security breach, even for an administration that has failed to make restricting the proliferation of nuclear technology a priority. Whoever authorized putting partisan political considerations above national security in this instance must be held accountable."

http://releases.usnewswire.com/GetRelease.asp?id=75679


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[Ignacio Upton]

1. Now lets make sure they run ads slamming this!

If you want to blunt a Saddam verdict bounce, then getting the DNC to run national ads about the nuclear documents could stop a bounce.

Call them:

202-863-8000

[originalpckelly]

2. Well no duh...

every rightwing talk show host broadcast this fact to the world. They pathetically tried to use it to justify invading Iraq. Of course the reason that they had to release it is that not enough translators were out there. So they couldn't look at it all, and so it was inevitable that secret information would be released.

[bigtree]

3. the Bush regime had said there was nothing incriminating in the documents

that's when the outcry came from conservative interest groups who got congressional republicans to call for their release.

[Jack Rabbit]

9. They lied.

I'm shocked, shocked I say, that the Bushies would lie about national security.


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[Brundle_Fly]

4. HERE'S NANCY!

woot!

[HCE SuiGeneris]

5. You tell 'em Nancy... treasonous f'krs eom

[madokie]

6. We got your back Speaker

[emulatorloo]

7. kick n/t

[RobertSeattle]

8. Priorities Priorities

Republican Priorities in order:
1. Keep Republicans in Power
2. Protecting George W. Bush from investigation
3. Protecting Cheney from investigation
...
379. Keeping America Safe
...
...
813. Respecting the Constitution
...
1201. Not being hypocrites.

[indepat]

10. One more example that the damage perpetrated on this country by neocons is incalculable

and possibly irreversible. :grr:

[mhatrw]

11. Exactlly

From the NY Times:

http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-documents.html?hp&ex=1162616400&en=d6e60f288e881789&ei=5094&partner=homepage

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. ...

The documents, roughly a dozen in number, contain charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building that nuclear experts who have viewed them say go beyond what is available elsewhere on the Internet and in other public forums. For instance, the papers give detailed information on how to build nuclear firing circuits and triggering explosives, as well as the radioactive cores of atom bombs.

“For the U.S. to toss a match into this flammable area is very irresponsible,” said A. Bryan Siebert, a former director of classification at the federal Department of Energy, which runs the nation’s nuclear arms program. “There’s a lot of things about nuclear weapons that are secret and should remain so.”


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What could possibly be more dangerous than publishing detailed plans to make nukes on the internet in Arabic for every terrorist and enemy state in the world to download? Remember that there are dozens of tons plutonium and highly refined uranium just floating around the former Soviet Union.

Above and beyond all this is the undeniable manner in which this episode so accurately and intensely exposes the Bush administration's true priorities. They are the most secretive administration in history when it comes to any documents they feel could hurt them politically in any way. The only reason they released these documents in the first place was to serve as some kind of political ass covering for their irresponsible war mongering in Iraq. They could not care less about our national security except as a political tool to keep power.