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...

[Captain Splendid]

I didn't know I was American....

Re:Numb From the Neck Up

[Doc Ruby]

No, I think that most of the people doing their part in the conspiracy think they're just doing their job. I think the gagging judge, whether or not they knew that they're protecting a conspiracy, thought they were protecting secret intel practices. Drowning the baby in the bathwater.

Occam's razor doesn't offer her lying or being wrong as a simpler explanation, because it takes an extra loop to explain why she's gagged instead of just letting her fail to prove her allegations in public.

Besides, if Occam's Razor were applied to, say, the Watergate conspiracy, then they were just petty burglars. The truth, that Nixon had the CIA rob the Democratic campaign HQ to steal evidence he though they had that he'd been bribed by Howard Hughes a decade earlier, shatters Occam's Razor. Occam's Razor leaves Eugene Hasenfus just an ex-CIA pilot moonlighting for some drug dealers, not just one weak link in a large smuggling operation that exchanged guns to coke cartels for drugs sold inside the US, funding a covert war in Honduras against Nicaragua, and resupplying our enemy Iran. Occam's Razor doesn't explain how the US baited the Soviets into Afghanistan, blowing back Osama. Where were all the witnesses to those crimes spilling the beans, who numbered in the thousands?

And Occam's Razor doesn't explain what Cheney was doing in the room every time. Or really in the office upstairs, busily shredding evidence to preserve his plausible deniability.

What does serve all those purposes is naivete. At this late date, powered by a strong denial that perpetuates itself rather than face how wrong it's been about everything.