Bush Admin Posts Bomb Guide on Web

[toasty]

Re: Bush Admin Posts Bomb Guide on Web

i have honestly come to the conclusion that if i worked for the IRS, and i fucked up processing your tax return and ended up charging you a large penalty, you would blame the administration.

lol, you're probably right about that. I'm well beyond giving Bush the benefit of the doubt.

odds are no one in charge actually saw this.

That's kinda the point. Indicative of the overly blaise, disengaged approach the Admin has taken with running this country. They are more concerned with spin than substance.

intelligence is reveiwed by a senate sub committee. and physically, the odds are no one outiside of the military and the committee even saw the document.

I'm not sure we're comparing apples to apples here. Sounds like your talking about the review of classified materials that goes on as a matter of course. I'm talking about something that goes around that normal process. I'm pretty sure that Bush has given himself (i.e., the Executive Branch) the authority to classify and declassify things outside of that process -- maybe Executive Order 13292, but don't quote me on that.

Of course, this still doesn't explain what previous administrations have to do with the decision to declassify and post these docs.

[thesightless]

Re: Bush Admin Posts Bomb Guide on Web

my question is why werent they either destroyed or removed and transferred to where they should have been (thepentagon intelligence groups) during the last 13-15 years. it aint something you sit on.

add in the fact that i can barely think right and you are good on monday mornings, well, it aint helping.

[toasty]

Re: Bush Admin Posts Bomb Guide on Web

my question is why werent they either destroyed or removed and transferred to where they should have been (thepentagon intelligence groups) during the last 13-15 years. it aint something you sit on.

Well, I'm presuming that they did whatever they deemed appropriate with it up to this point, keeping in mind that it is a document that pre-dates Desert Storm. Bush 1 attacked Iraq, and Clinton enforced those sanctions, which we now know were successful in containing Iraq's nuclear program.

I'm not even real sure what significance that document would have in the context of a discussion about Iraq's current nuclear capacity. It basically stands for the idea that Iraq had information about how to make an atomic bomb -- and would presumably still have that knowledge. That puts it on the same footing as it has always been, though, and on the same footing as lots of other countries around the world. That is not a new development. Knowledge does not equal capability, nor does desire.