FBI Burying Doc Showing US Officials Stole Nuclear Secrets?

BoingBoing is reporting that the FBI may be burying the existence of a document that proves US officials stole nuclear secrets for eventual sale to Pakistan and Saudi Arabia. "One of the documents relating to the case was marked 203A-WF-210023. Last week, however, the FBI responded to a freedom of information request for a file of exactly the same number by claiming that it did not exist. But The Sunday Times has obtained a document signed by an FBI official showing the existence of the file. Edmonds believes the crucial file is being deliberately covered up by the FBI because its contents are explosive. She accuses the agency of an 'outright lie.'"

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Re:Gee...

[jackpot777]

Because for some reason, you Evangelical Americans still seem to think the appropriate reaction is to ask for a little lube and not much else.

Got to differentiate between the pervert money-grabbing mess-it-all-up right wing Americans and the secular humanist pinko Europe-loves-you left wing Americans, after all.

Especially when it comes to lube.

Boing-Boing is reporting...???

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Cory Doctorow?
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Re:Numb From the Neck Up

[Doc Ruby]

Well, now you're moving on to talk about the substance of the allegations, since your effort to nip it in the bud by denying my toplevel point about its interest regardless of political orientation (so long as it's in the interest of America) has failed.

So I'm not impressed by your "smell test". Usually the line of argument you follow relies on saying "but no one leaked". In this case, someone actually did leak, Sibel Edmonds. Who's been (unconstitutionally) gagged for years. To suppress false info? That doesn't pass the smell test.

Also not sticking to the conspiracy's script is Valerie Plame, and her husband. Those people aren't exactly screaming from the rafters, but of course they've also worked hard most of their lives to protect the US from bottom line damage, and keep its intel systems intact. The rest of the people in a position to know are either guilty, so they're not going to squeal, or still in the game working inside to slow/stop/fix the damage. At this level, very few people have much to gain by just going public. Especially when part of the described conspiracy operation was to replace actual loyal Americans with foreign moles.

The one person we know of who isn't playing inside the rules got gagged, and who knows what other threats. Meanwhile, plenty of other spying takes place and almost never comes to light, even when caught. And even this case is getting practically no coverage here in America, where it would be a popular story, though it's passed muster at several very legitimate news orgs at very close allies, in English, like in Canada and now the UK. So "kept it all a secret" isn't really a failed requirement of these conspiracies.

I remind you that the Iran/Contra conspiracy, which bridged several agencies covering for each other (CIA, NSC, Pentagon, Justice, and more) didn't leak to the press until one pilot (Eugene Hasenfus, CIA) crashed in Nicaragua (an enemy government the target of an actual shooting war run by the conspiracy) and was put on TV saying he was CIA (he actually had his CIA ID card with him). Those Iran/Contra people are at the core of this Bush regime, from Congress (Google (cunningham "iran/contra")) through the Executive branch, through "emeritus" figures like John Poindexter. It's a successful, unbroken conspiracy (despite exposure and even - overturned - convictions) that has absolutely no reason to stop growing. And since huge, longeterm business like Star Wars is up for grabs, it will grow bigger than the Earth no matter how much some of us try to deny it.

That's reality. "Smell tests" run by complex, practiced denial mechanisms that "don't believe the vast majority of accusations against htis administration", are just part of the faithy community that's run rampant over this country and the world the past seven or more years. People like you make it easy, because you're pulling the wool so hard over your own eyes.