Larisa Alexandrovna: Dear FBI - White House Not Leaking, Flooding Is More Like It...

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http://www.atlargely.com/2007/10/white-house-not.html

White House not leaking, flooding is more like it...

Dear FBI, two senior Republican members of the House Intel Committee want the White House to stop political leaking of classified information not yet vetted. Can you help them out? You know something has gone wrong in the world when I start agreeing with Congressman Hoekstra:

"President Bush has consistently refused to comment on leaked claims that US intelligence believes the target of an Israeli raid in Syria on September 6 was a nuclear rector being built for Syria by North Korea.

Rep. Peter Hoekstra (R-MI), the ranking Republican on the House Intelligence Committee, and Rep. Ileana Ross-Lehtinen (R-FL), a member of the House Foreign Affairs Committee, say that they have been briefed on the intelligence but many members of Congress have not. They are accusing the administration in a Wall Street Journal op-ed (sub. req.) of using selective leaks, thereby "preventing due diligence and oversight."

The lawmakers write, "We are concerned that, although the Bush administration refuses to discuss the Israeli airstrike with the American people or with the majority of Congress, it has not hesitated to give information on background to the press to shape this story to its liking. New York Times writer David Sanger authored and coauthored articles on Oct. 14 and 15 that appeared to reflect extensive input from senior policy makers. Washington Post writer Glenn Kessler coauthored an article on Sept. 21 that also cited inside information from the administration. We believe this is unacceptable."'

In other words, the White House (read OVP) briefed Republican members of the House Intel Committee on what went down in Syria. The House Intel Committee is still investigating it, trying to vet the information provided by the White House. In the meantime, the White House is leaking talking points (read laundering domestic propaganda) to the press, without a). knowing if the intelligence is accurate and b). without concern for national security. I don't blame the journalists. It is not our job to determine what is classified if the people giving it to us say it is okay to run. Sources I have worked with who mentioned anything classified have always been very careful on what they said, how they said it, and having me to agree to certain terms about what cannot be published in the public sphere. The reason is, they tend to actually care about national security.

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Dear FBI, since you are so interested in investigating journalists for leaks, you might want to first start with the veritable flooding out of the OVP.

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1. HA!!! OVP flooding the presses but taking a leak on Congress!

:rofl:

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2. Syria building a secret Korth Korean reactor?

This is one of the strangest stories I've heard. NK has an ancient Soviet-designed graphite reactor, the same type that melted down in Chernobyl. Take a look at that reactor -- below -- it's huge. A smaller one just isn't going to produce militarily significant amounts of plutonium. In order to reproduce that reactor, Syria would have to build a huge concrete batch plant, haul in thousands of tons of steel rod, produce or import tons of graphite block, and refine hundreds of tons of uranium yellowcake into enriched uranium rods.

You don't do that without being noticed. A nuclear reactor to produce weapons grade plutonium doesn't arrive in a single ship. Perhaps, a few obsolete third-hand Pakistani-made centrifuges (you need 6000 of them, at least, plus a bunch of other huge processing facilities), but not a reactor.



This whole thing about bombing Syrian nukes is a clumsy cover story.

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