Who "leaked" this explosives story?

[i_c_a_White_Ghost]

was it the pentagon or.... just wondering

:shrug:

[JuniorPlankton]

1. Yeah, I am wondering

Is there more behind it?

[Wat_Tyler]

2. Hey! It's the October Surprise!

Well, something has to be. Right?

[movonne]

It came out in the Nelson report ...bush tried to keep it undercover

until after the election

[NightOwwl]

12. Is this from the 2nd half of the intelligence report

that was supposed to come out after the election, or is this something different?

[osaMABUSh]

3. Is this the October suprise that Kerry's people alluded to

a few weeks ago? I think I read that here at DU

[kentuck]

4. George Tenet ?

Remember a couple of days ago he said the war in Iraq was a mistake or something to that effect ?

[Tandalayo_Scheisskopf]

5. I got $5.00 that says...

3 little letters: C I A

The Mighty Wurlitzer. They invented it. They perfected it.

[Mizmoon]

8. Bingo!

They may very well have leaked it, but I have to say I'm disappointed in the CIA. Decades of throwing elections and this is the best they've got? I mean, it might float in a nation of people with brains, but here it'll take them too long to understand the significance, and long before that happens they'll be distracted by a pretty object like the Scott Peterson trial.

[KittyWampus]

10. Maybe They're Not Done Yet

Also, have to keep a lot of criminal stuff under wraps til Kerry is sworn in.

Don't want Bush pre-emptively pardoning people.

[TexasChick]

16. That is my hope as well! n/t

[Sporadicus]

11. I Agree

The Pentagon stands to lose credibility and the possibility exists of mutiny among the troops; I don't think they're responsible.

The CIA, on the other hand, has had to endure repeated slurs from the * admin concerning their Iraq intelligence - plus the Valerie Plame affair, which must infuriate career intelligence officers.

[Moonbeam_Starlight]

6. Could anyone

fill me in?

[cubsfan forever]

7. Bunnypants has infuriated so many people

it could be just about anyone who has access to this information and the power to use it. My bet: someone in the CIA. Yes, Baby Bush, now you know that payback is a ....

Professor 2

[Fridays Child]

9. The freeptards think State leaked it to kick their little Booshy's butt.

I can't believe that anyone would view this as a leaked story. This information should have come out long ago. But I guess it's a leak if, no matter what it is or how much of a right we have to know about it, the information could reflect negatively on their boy.

[w4rma]

13. It should have been public long ago. It shouldn't have had to be leaked.

But, it wasn't made public. And therefore no steps at all were taken to reduce the damage that this did to our nation's security. It wasn't leaked because of the damage that this does to Bush's political security (he could obviously care less about our nations security).

[Inland]

15. Right. YOu have to figure this is the tip of the iceberg,

that the bad news is piling up behind the WH stonewall.

[tjdee]

14. The media is playing us, as usual.

Didn't we KNOW about these missing explosives? I could have sworn that I've heard of this before.

But for SOME reason, the media is just getting wind of it now? Don't buy it. They decide what is "news".

Unless you're asking who "okayed" it.

[shraby]

17. The Guardian has been running

stories on this for a long time now. Someone posted them last night.

[neoSattva]

18. Iraq Gov't through the IAEA

from the Times article:
Earlier this month, in a letter to the I.A.E.A. in Vienna, a senior official from Iraq's Ministry of Science and Technology wrote that the stockpile disappeared after early April 2003 because of "the theft and looting of the governmental installations due to lack of security."