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20080605
 Dick
Cheney -  Secret
-  Government
-  Military
-  Terrorism
-  Intelligence
-  Politics
-  Investigation
- Osama
bin Laden
-  Nuclear
- 
-  US
-  Iraq
-  Iran
-  Czech
"Senate
committee: Bush knew Iraq claims weren't true." ...
"[Republicans] President Bush, Vice President Dick Cheney and other top
officials promoted the invasion of Iraq with public statements that weren't
supported by intelligence or that concealed differences among intelligence
agencies, the Senate Intelligence Committee said on Thursday in a report
that was delayed by bitter partisan infighting." ... "A second report found
that a special office set up under then-secretary of defense Donald H.
Rumsfeld conducted "sensitive intelligence activities" that were inappropriate
"without the knowledge of the Intelligence Community or the State Department."
That report revealed that Pentagon counterintelligence officials suspected
that Iran might have tried to use the group to influence administration
policymakers." ... "The Senate report, the first official examination of
whether top officials knew that their public statements were unsubstantiated
when they made them, reviewed five speeches by Bush, Cheney and former
Secretary of State Colin Powell between August 2002 and February 2003.
It also dissected key statements made by them and other top officials,
including Rumsfeld and then-national security adviser Condoleezza Rice."
... "The committee found that the administration's warnings that former
dictator Saddam Hussein was in league with Osama bin Laden, a highly inflammatory
assertion in the wake of the [September] Sept. 11, 2001, al Qaida attacks,
weren't substantiated by U.S. intelligence reports. In fact, it said, [United
State] U.S. intelligence agencies were telling the White House that while
there'd been sporadic contacts over a decade, there was no operational
cooperation between Iraq and al Qaida, the report said." ... "The administration's
repeated statements "suggesting that Iraq and al Qaida had a partnership,
or that Iraq had provided al Qaida with weapons training, were not substantiated
by intelligence," it said." ... "Contentions by Bush and Cheney that Saddam
had to be removed because he could give terrorists weapons of mass destruction
to strike the United States were "contradicted by available intelligence
information" that found that the late Iraqi dictator was unlikely to make
such transfers, the report said." ... "Cheney's assertions that Mohammad
Atta, the chief Sept. 11 hijacker, had met months before the attack with
an Iraqi intelligence officer in the Czech capital, Prague [Czech Republic],
were also unsubstantiated, the inquiry found." ... "The committee said
that Bush and Cheney "failed to reflect concerns and uncertainties" expressed
in intelligence analyses that questioned administration assertions that
Iraqis would welcome U.S. troops as liberators and warned that American
forces could face violent resistance." ... "Statements by Bush, Cheney
and other top officials that Saddam had stockpiled chemical and biological
weapons in violation of U.N. resolutions were "generally substantiated"
by what turned out to be erroneous U.S. intelligence analyses, the report
said." ... "However, while intelligence reports "generally substantiated"
their claims that Iraq had secretly restarted a nuclear weapons program,
the committee said, Bush and other officials failed to disclose that the
State Department disputed that finding." ... "The administration's statements
also failed to disclose that the Energy Department joined the State Department
in rejecting allegations that Iraq had tried to buy uranium in Africa,
the report said." ... "The reports released Thursday brought to an end
a lengthy investigation into how U.S. intelligence appeared to be so wrong
in the run-up to the Iraq war." -By Jonathan
S. Landay with contributions by Nancy
A. Youssef and
Mark
Seibel -McClatchyDC.com
[PDF]
- "Senate
Intelligence Iraq Phase II Report (Phase 2 a): REPORT on Whether Public
Statements Regarding Iraq by U.S. Government Officials Were Substantiated
by Intelligence Information."
[PDF] -
"Senate
Intelligence Iraq Phase II Report (Phase 2 b): REPORT on Intelligence
Activities Relating to Iraq Conducted by the Policy Counterterrorism Evaluation
Group and the Office of Special Plans Within the Office of the Under Secretary
of Defense for Policy."
[PDF] -
"Phase I Senate
report on Iraq Intelligence."
20080602
 John
McCain -  Barack
Obama - US
- Iran
- Military
-  Technology
- Intelligence
- Politics
- Terrorism
- Iraq
-
-  Ariz
-  Ill
- 2008
Election
"Both
McCain, Obama exaggerating Iran's nuclear program."
... "The presumptive Republican nominee for president and the leading contender
for the Democratic nomination are exaggerating what's known about Iran's
nuclear program as they duel over how best to deal with Tehran." ... "[2008
Election Presidential Candidates and Senators] Sens. John McCain, R-Ariz.
[Republican-Arizona], and Barack Obama, D-Ill. [Democratic-Illinois], say
that Iran is developing nuclear weapons." ... "The U.S. intelligence community,
however, thinks that Iran halted an effort to build a nuclear warhead in
mid-2003, and the [United Nations] U.N. International Atomic Energy Agency,
which is investigating the program, has found no evidence to date of an
active Iranian nuclear-weapons project." ... "The candidates' comments
raise questions about how carefully the two have studied the public record
on what's become a major campaign issue and is one of the most difficult
foreign-policy challenges likely to confront the next president." ... "The
issue is also significant because the [Republican President] Bush administration
inflated assessments of the Iraqi nuclear threat and the possibility that
former dictator Saddam Hussein could pass nuclear weapons to terrorists
as it sought to whip up public support for the March 2003 invasion of Iraq."
... "Iran has been expanding an industrial-scale uranium enrichment program
in defiance of U.N. Security Council demands that it be suspended. Enrichment
is the process that produces low-enriched uranium fuel for nuclear generating
stations and highly enriched uranium for nuclear weapons." ... "Iran, whose
known enrichment facilities are under IAEA monitoring, says it's making
low-enriched uranium reactor fuel and has no intention of developing weapons.
Few experts, however, think that Iran has come clean about all its nuclear
activities." -By
Jonathan
S. Landay -McClatchyDC.com
20080519
-
Barack
Obama - John
McCain - 2008
Election -
 Montana
- Illinois
- US
-  Russia
-  Cuba
- Iran
- Military
- Nuclear
-  History
- "Obama
Responds To McCain: "Strong" Presidents Aren't Afraid To Meet With Enemies."
... "[2008 Election Democratic Presidential Candidate] Barack Obama, in
Montana, responded moments ago to [2008 Election Republican Presidential
Candidate John] McCain's ridicule
of the Illinois Senator for saying that Iran is a minuscule threat compared
to the former Soviet Union [now Russia]." ... "McCain said this revealed
Obama's "inexperience and reckless judgment." Here's the key part of Obama's
reply..."
""Here's
the truth: the Soviet Union had thousands of nuclear weapons, and Iran
doesn't have a single one. But when the world was on the brink of nuclear
holocaust, Kennedy talked to Khrushchev and he got those missiles out of
Cuba. Why shouldn't we have the same courage and the confidence to talk
to our enemies? That's what strong countries do, that's what strong presidents
do, that's what I'll do when I'm president of the United States of America.""
"Obama
also said: "What are [Republicans] George Bush and John McCain afraid of"?"
-By Greg Sargent -TPMElectionCentral.TalkingPointsMemo
 WATCH:
"John McCain and Barack Obama Trade Blows on Foreign Policy."
20080201
-
US
- Iraq
-
 Afghanistan
- Military
-  Money
- Politics
- Nuclear
- Terrorism
- Disaster
- "'Appalling
Gap' Found in Homeland Defense Readiness: National
Guard, Reserve Forces Lack Sufficient Personnel, Training to Respond to
Crisis in U.S. [United States], Report Says." ... "The U.S. military is
not prepared to meet catastrophic threats at home, and it is suffering
from an "appalling gap" in forces able to respond to chemical, biological
and nuclear strikes on U.S. soil, according to a congressional commission
report released yesterday." ... "The situation is rooted in severe readiness
problems in National Guard and reserve forces, which would otherwise be
well-suited to respond to domestic crises but lack sufficient personnel
and training, as well as $48 billion in equipment because of deployments
to Iraq and Afghanistan, according to a report by the Commission on the
National Guard and Reserves." ... "Guard readiness has continued to slide
since last March, when the panel found that 88 percent of Army National
Guard units were rated "not ready," said retired Marine [Major General]
Maj. Gen. Arnold L. Punaro, the commission chairman." ... ""We think there
is an appalling gap in readiness for homeland defense, because it will
be the Guard and reserve that have to respond for these things," he said
in an interview, noting that the reserves are present in 3,000 U.S. communities.
The commission, which was established in 2005, has 12 members, including
several other former military officers." ... ""Because the nation has not
adequately resourced its forces designated for response to weapons of mass
destruction, it does not have sufficient trained, ready forces available,"
the report said. "This is an appalling gap that places the nation and its
citizens at greater risk."" -WashingtonPost
20071218
-
Iran
- Russia
-
 Fuel
- Business
- Construction
- US
-  International
- Military
- Politics
- "Russia
starts nuclear fuel deliveries to Iran." ... "Iran
passed a significant milestone in its quest for nuclear power status yesterday
when it received a first delivery of enriched uranium from Russia, allowing
for the completion of a long-delayed reactor at Bushehr [Iran]." ... "The
head of Iran's atomic energy organisation, Gholamreza Aghazadeh, announced
that 80 tonnes of fuel had been received, with further consignments expected
in the next two months." ... "The delivery appeared to signal a weakening
of the international coalition opposing Iranian nuclear ambitions which
the US and its allies suspect are aimed at building an atomic bomb." ...
"It also means Iran is just months away from having its first nuclear power
station, after years of delays. The Russian contractors building the Bushehr
plant, which will be used to generate electricity, say it could be operational
within six months." -By Robert Tait
-Guardian.co.uk
20071205
-
US
- Iran
- Nuclear
- Military
- Intelligence
- Politics
- "Bush
told in August that Iran nuke program 'may be suspended'."
... "[Republican] President Bush was told in August that Iran's nuclear
weapons program "may be suspended," the White House said Wednesday, which
seemingly contradicts the account of the meeting given by Bush Tuesday."
... "[Admiral] Adm. Mike McConnell, the director of national intelligence,
told Bush the new information might cause intelligence officials to change
their assessment of the Iranian program, but said analysts needed to review
the new data before making a final judgment, White House press secretary
Dana Perino said late Wednesday." ... ""Director McConnell said that the
new information might cause the intelligence community to change its assessment
of Iran's covert nuclear program, but the intelligence community was not
prepared to draw any conclusions at that point in time, and it wouldn't
be right to speculate until they had time to examine and analyze the new
data," Perino said in a statement issued by the White House." ... "The
new account from Perino seems to contradict the president's version of
his August conversation with McConnell and raised new questions about why
Bush continued to warn the American public about a threat from Iran two
months after being told a new assessment was in the works." -By
Ed Henry -CNN
20071204
-
 Joe
Biden
- US
- Iran
- Military
- Nuclear
- Intelligence
- History
-  Delaware
- 2008
Election - "Democrats
incredulous over Bush's account of Iran report."
... "[2008 Election] Democratic presidential candidate [Delaware Senator]
Sen. Joe Biden on Tuesday said he can't believe [Republican] President
Bush hasn't known for months about a recent intelligence estimate that
downplays the nuclear threat from Iran." ... "On Tuesday the president
acknowledged he had given a speech warning that Iran's nuclear development
risked "World War III" about two months after his intelligence chief told
him a reassessment of Tehran's nuclear ambitions was under way." ... "Bush
told reporters during a White House news conference that he was not told
the details of the new assessment until last week and he said the new report,
which found that Iran had halted its nuclear weapons work in 2003, will
not change U.S. policy toward Iran." ... "The Democratic presidential candidates
were incredulous that Bush did not know about the assessment's new finding."
... "Biden, the chairman of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, called
that explanation "unbelievable."" ... ""Are you telling me a president
that's briefed every single morning, who's fixated on Iran, is not told
back in August that the tentative conclusion of 16 intelligence agencies
in the U.S. government said they had abandoned their effort for a nuclear
weapon in '03?" Biden asked in a conference call with reporters." ... ""I
refuse to believe that," he added. "If that's true, he has the most incompetent
staff in modern American history, and he's one of the most incompetent
presidents in modern American history."" -CNN
-
US
- Iran
- Nuclear
- Military
- Intelligence
- Politics
- Secret
- History
- "U.S.
Finds Iran Halted Its Nuclear Arms Effort in 2003."
... "A new assessment by American intelligence agencies released Monday
concludes that Iran halted its nuclear weapons program in 2003 and that
the program remains frozen, contradicting a judgment two years ago that
Tehran [Iran's capital] was working relentlessly toward building a nuclear
bomb." ... "The conclusions of the new assessment are likely to reshape
the final year of the [Republican President] Bush administration, which
has made halting Iran’s nuclear program a cornerstone of its foreign policy."
... "The assessment, a National Intelligence Estimate that represents the
consensus view of all 16 American spy agencies, states that Tehran is likely
to keep its options open with respect to building a weapon, but that intelligence
agencies “do not know whether it currently intends to develop nuclear weapons.”"
... "Iran is continuing to produce enriched uranium, a program that the
Tehran government has said is intended for civilian purposes. The new estimate
says that the enrichment program could still provide Iran with enough raw
material to produce a nuclear weapon sometime by the middle of next decade,
a timetable essentially unchanged from previous estimates." ... "But the
new report essentially disavows a judgment that the intelligence agencies
issued in 2005, which concluded that Iran had an active secret arms program
intended to transform the raw material into a nuclear weapon. The new estimate
declares instead with “high confidence” that the military-run program was
shut in 2003, and it concludes with “moderate confidence” that the program
remains frozen. The report judges that the halt was imposed by Iran “primarily
in response to increasing international scrutiny and pressure.”" (1, 2)
-By Mark Mazzetti -NYTimes
20071030
-
 Dennis
Kucinich - US
- Iran
- Nuclear
- Military
- Mental
-  Health
- 2008
Election -  Ohio
-  Pennsylvania
- "Kucinich
questions Bush's mental health." ... "[2008 Election]
Democratic presidential candidate Dennis Kucinich questioned President
Bush's mental health in light of comments he made about a nuclear Iran
precipitating World War III." ... ""I seriously believe we have to start
asking questions about his mental health," Kucinich, an Ohio congressman,
said in an interview with [Pennsylvania's] The Philadelphia Inquirer's
editorial board on Tuesday. "There's something wrong. He does not seem
to understand his words have real impact."" ... "He [Republican President
Bush] said: "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 (Iran)
from having the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.""
-AP via -Yahoo
20071012
-
Russia
- US
- Czech
Republic -
 Poland
- Military
- Technology
- Nuclear
- "Russia
urges US missile 'freeze': Russia has called on the
US to "freeze" plans to employ missile defence facilities in eastern Europe."
... "After high-level talks in Moscow [Russia's capital], Foreign Minister
Sergei Lavrov said Russia saw the shield as a "potential threat" and wanted
to "neutralise" it." ... "US Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice denied
any threat to Russia, saying she wanted both countries to work together."
... "Earlier, however, Russian President Vladimir Putin signalled he would
not support American plans." ... "He urged Washington "not to force" a
planned deployment - of a radar in the Czech Republic and interceptors
in Poland - on Russia." ... "Mr Putin also threatened to abandon a key
nuclear missile treaty which he said was outdated."" ... "President Putin
said at the start of the talks that it would be difficult to remain part
of the Intermediate Range Nuclear Forces (INF) treaty unless it was expanded
to include more countries than just the US and Russia." ... "The treaty,
which limits US and Russian short and medium range missiles, was signed
20 years ago and led to the elimination of almost 3,000 Russian and American
missiles." -BBC/News
20070925
-
Nuclear
- Energy
- Construction
- Industry
- Government
-
 Environmental
-  Law
- Language
- Politics
- History
-  Land
-  Maryland
-  New
Jersey - "Nuclear
Utilities Redefine One Word to Bulldoze for New Plants."
... "On tree-lined bluffs overlooking the Chesapeake Bay, where anti-nuclear
activists won a landmark environmental victory 36 years ago, Constellation
Energy Group Inc. is engineering atomic power's comeback." ... "This time,
even if there are protests, bulldozers will roll." ... "That's because
the [Maryland] Baltimore-based utility and its allies have found a way
around a longstanding regulatory policy they say added a year or more to
construction times for nuclear plants." ... "In April, the U.S. Nuclear
Regulatory Commission [NRC] agreed to industry demands that it reduce its
oversight of initial work at reactor sites. By narrowing its definition
of the word ``construction'' in agency rules, the NRC put off the required
public hearings and permits that have waylaid past projects." ... "The
untold story of how the energy lobby and the federal government worked
to clear a path for new reactors -- backed by an NRC commissioner [Republican
Jeffrey Merrifield] seeking a job in the [nuclear] industry -- reveals
one way pro-nuclear forces have stolen a march on environmentalists." ...
"Utilities and the administration of [Republican] President George W. Bush
say they want new reactors on line by 2015. Power companies are rushing
to take advantage of federal tax credits and loan guarantees in the Energy
Policy Act of 2005, some of which begin to expire next year. The NRC says
it expects to receive as many as 21 applications to build 32 new reactors,
the first of which will be filed today by NRG Energy Inc. of Princeton,
New Jersey." ... "The new construction rule is only the latest such initiative.
In 2004, the NRC limited the public's ability to gather evidence and question
witnesses during hearings." ... "By redefining ``construction'' to exclude
excavation, road building and the erection of some cooling towers, the
NRC could reduce its oversight without violating the 1971 court order."
... "Andrew Kugler, senior environmental project manager in the NRC's New
Reactor Office, protested to the general counsel's office. Kugler said
in an e-mail that the proposed rule would exclude from NRC regulation ``probably
90 percent of the true environmental impacts of construction.''" -By
Elliot Blair Smith -Bloomberg
20070905
-
Military
-
 Flight
-  North
Dakota -  Louisiana
- "Air
Force official rapped after nuclear flyover: Official
relieved of command after 5 warheads are flown across the U.S.." ... "An
Air Force squadron commander has been relieved of his command after five
nuclear weapons were mistakenly loaded aboard a B-52 bomber and flown cross-country
last week." ... "Five 150-kiloton warheads were attached to cruise missiles
that were flown Aug. 30 from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale
Air Force Base in Louisiana to be dismantled, but the warheads should have
been removed." ... "Military officials insist the warheads remained “under
control” at all times and did not pose a danger."
-MSNBC
20070903
-
Iran
- Nuclear
- Energy
- Military
- Religion- Economy
-
 Student
- Free
Speech - "On
Two Fronts, One Nuclear, Iran Is Defiant." ... "Iran’s
leaders issued dual, defiant statements on Sunday, with the president announcing
that the nation had 3,000 active centrifuges to enrich uranium and the
top ayatollah appointing a new Islamic Revolutionary Guards commander who
once advocated military force against students." ... "The most recent report
of the International Atomic Energy Agency, released Thursday, said Iran
had 1,968 centrifuges enriching uranium at its main Natanz plant, 328 in
testing, and 328 in assembly — for a total of 2,624. The report noted that
the assessment was accurate as of Aug. 19, or two weeks ago." ... "The
goal of 3,000 centrifuges is significant to nuclear experts: they say that
if Iran could spin that many centrifuges nonstop for a year, it could make
enough highly enriched uranium for a single atom bomb." ... "[Iran's supreme
leader] Ayatollah Khamenei announced that Gen. Yahya Rahim Safavi, who
had led the force for a decade, would be replaced by Brig. Gen. Mohammad
Ali Jafari." ... "The Guards, which has about 200,000 members, controls
a huge empire that has a stake in every significant corner of Iran’s economy
and its civil system of governance. Mr. Ahmadinejad was a member of the
Guards during the 1980 to 1988 war with Iraq, and he has placed dozens
of former members in leadership positions around the country and in the
central government in Tehran." ... "The Guards are, by design, the most
economic and politically independent body in the country, outside of the
supreme leader’s office. General Jafari has an established record of support
for the theocratic system of government, and its hard-line policies." -By
Michael Slackman and Nazila Fathi with contributions by David E. Sanger
and William J. Broad -NYTimes
20070818
-
Russia
- Nuclear
- Flight
- History
- United
States - Iran
-
 China
- Global
- Technology
- "Russia
resumes regular flights of strategic bombers: The
missions, which had been discontinued in 1992, are seen as a signal to
the West. The [Republican President Bush] White House downplays the action."
... "Russian President Vladimir V. Putin on Friday announced reinstatement
of the Soviet-era practice of having nuclear bombers routinely make long-distance
flights that bring them within striking distance of the United States and
its allies." ... ""Today just after midnight, 14 strategic missile aircraft,
with support and fuel planes, took off from seven airfields across Russia,"
Putin said in televised remarks. "Combat duty began in which a total of
20 planes are taking part. From today, combat duty of this kind will be
carried out on a regular basis."" ... "Russian strategic bombers can carry
nuclear cruise missiles with ranges of at least 1,800 miles." ... "Russians
have been angered by U.S. plans to install an antimissile system in Eastern
Europe. Washington says it is needed to defend Europe and North America,
citing the possibility of missile attacks by Iran. Moscow [Russia's capital]
has expressed fear that the move would be a step toward a global missile-defense
system aimed at devaluing Russia's and China's nuclear deterrents, and
that the system could be modified for offensive missiles that would be
close to Russia's border." -By David Holley with contributions
by Sergei L. Loiko, Bob Drogin, and Maura Reynolds
-LAtimes
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20020615
Joseph Cirincione,
chief author of a book published by the Carnegie Endowment for International
Peace on nuclear proliferation and the director of the Endowment's nonproliferation
project, "said at least eight countries have nuclear weapons -- the United
States, Russia, Britain, France, China, Israel, India and Pakistan -- and
three more are apparently seeking them -- Iraq, Iran and North Korea. Four
countries, he said, have in recent years given up their weapons -- South
Africa and the former Soviet republics Ukraine, Belarus and Kazakhstan."
-From:
"Israel
Has Sub-Based Atomic Arms Capability." - 20020615-By
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Shrouds Accident at Nuclear Plant." ... "A factory
that makes uranium fuel for nuclear reactors had a spill so bad that it
kept the plant closed for seven months last year and became one of only
three incidents in all of 2006 serious enough for the Nuclear Regulatory
Commission to include in an annual report to Congress. After an investigation,
the commission changed the terms of the factory’s license and said that
the public had 20 days to request a hearing on the changes." ... "But no
member of the public ever did. In fact, no member of the public could find
out about the changes. The document describing them, including the notice
of hearing rights for anyone who felt adversely affected, was stamped “official
use only,” meaning that it was not publicly accessible. “Official use only”
is a category below “Secret” and, while documents in that category are
not technically classified, they are kept from the public." ... "The agency
would not even have told Congress which factory was involved were it not
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