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Clinton Scheme Gave Iran Nuke Blueprints(Is anyone surprised?)
NewsMax ^ | January 07, 2006 | Carl Limbacher

Posted on 01/07/2006 10:21:17 AM PST by Kaslin

In a hairbrained scheme that was personally approved by then-President Clinton, the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program.

The allegation, detailed in the new book "State of War," by New York Times reporter James Risen, comes as the Iranian nuclear crisis appears to be coming to a head, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urging that Israel be "wiped off the map" and his government announcing last week that it will resume uranium enrichment on Monday.

Reports Risen: "It's not clear who originally came up with the idea, but the plan [to give Tehran nuclear blueprints] was first approved by Clinton."

Beginning in February 2000, the CIA recruited a Russian scientist who had defected to the US years earlier. His mission: Take the nuclear blueprints to Vienna to sell them - or simply give them - to the Iranian representatives for the International Atomic Energy Agency.

Dubbed "Operation Merlin," the plan was supposed to steer Iranian physicists off track by incorporating design flaws in the blueprints that would render the information worthless.

But in what may turn out to be one of the greatest foreign policy blunders of all time, Operation Merlin backfired when the Russian scientist spotted the design flaws immediately - and even offered to help Iran fix the problems.

Risen said the Clinton-approved plan ended up handing Tehran "one of the greatest engineering secrets in the world, providing the solution to one of a handful of problems that separated nuclear powers such as the United States and Russia from rogue countries such as Iran that were desperate to join the nuclear club but had so far fallen short."

He noted that thanks to the bizarre operation, Iran could now "leapfrog one of the last remaining engineering hurdles blocking its path to a nuclear weapon."

Ironically, Risen's New York Times has declined to cover Mr. Clinton's Iranian nuclear debacle - concentrating instead on his book's dubious claims that the National Security Agency was first authorized to commence domestic wiretapping by President Bush.

Still, with Operation Merlin going so badly off track, "State of War's" revelations certainly warrant the kind of full blown congressional investigation now planned for the wiretap pseudo-scandal.

Risen's report could also have a serious implications for Sen. Hillary Clinton's 2008 presidential campaign. Mrs. Clinton has been sharply critical of President Bush's handling of the Iranian nuclear crisis, complaining that a nuclear-armed Tehran would be a much more serious threat to the U.S. than Iraq.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Front Page News; News/Current Events; US: Arkansas; US: New York; War on Terror
KEYWORDS: cia; clinton; clintonlegacy; enemywithin; iran; irannukes; nukes; patriotleak; sinkemperor; x42
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1 posted on 01/07/2006 10:21:18 AM PST by Kaslin
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To: Kaslin

Rush was talking about this. Jail Clinton, bomb Iran.


2 posted on 01/07/2006 10:23:27 AM PST by manic4organic (We won. Get over it.)
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To: Kaslin

BTTT


3 posted on 01/07/2006 10:24:04 AM PST by Fiddlstix (Tagline Repair Service. Let us fix those broken Taglines. Inquire within(Presented by TagLines R US))
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To: prairiebreeze; Mo1
The allegation, detailed in the new book "State of War," by New York Times reporter James Risen, comes as the Iranian nuclear crisis appears to be coming to a head, with Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad urging that Israel be "wiped off the map" and his government announcing last week that it will resume uranium enrichment on Monday.

Reports Risen: "It's not clear who originally came up with the idea, but the plan [to give Tehran nuclear blueprints] was first approved by Clinton."

LOLOL. Sometimes the left's best laid plans come back to bite them. Don't lose this one!

4 posted on 01/07/2006 10:24:10 AM PST by Peach
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To: Kaslin

Related piece by Ledeen....

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1553194/posts


5 posted on 01/07/2006 10:24:48 AM PST by nuconvert (No More Axis of Evil by Christmas ! TLR) [there's a lot of bad people in the pistachio business])
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To: Kaslin; onyx; ohioWfan; Texasforever; BigSkyFreeper; Tamzee; mrs tiggywinkle; EllaMinnow; ...
Reports Risen: "It's not clear who originally came up with the idea, but the plan [to give Tehran nuclear blueprints] was first approved by Clinton."

WTH ???

Please tell me this isn't true

6 posted on 01/07/2006 10:25:35 AM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: manic4organic

Jail Clinton for this? The guy must $hit Ice Cream. Just add 1 more to his list of crimes.


7 posted on 01/07/2006 10:25:40 AM PST by JustAnotherOkie
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To: Kaslin

And the NY Times thought that wiretaps were a bigger issue. The Old Gray Lady is a whore!!!


8 posted on 01/07/2006 10:26:09 AM PST by King Moonracer
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To: Mo1

Evidently there is/was nothing that Klinton would not do to screw America......


9 posted on 01/07/2006 10:26:26 AM PST by Meadow Muffin
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To: Kaslin

Not to defend Clinton here, but if the Russians could spot the design flaws in our plans, they probably knew enough to given Iran the "blueprint" anyway.


10 posted on 01/07/2006 10:26:54 AM PST by rbg81
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To: Mo1

I see we both saw this at the same time. The Dems plan backfired a little bit with Rosen, didn't it?


11 posted on 01/07/2006 10:27:27 AM PST by Peach
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To: Kaslin
Reports Risen: "It's not clear who originally came up with the idea, but the plan [to give Tehran nuclear blueprints] was first approved by Clinton."

Does anyone believe that Clinton ever gave anything away? (including his used underwear.) He sold it.

12 posted on 01/07/2006 10:28:14 AM PST by penowa
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To: Kaslin
So Clinton decided ostensibly to give Iran giant pieces of the nuclear puzzle...

The traitor Bubba knew EXACTLY what he was doing.

14 posted on 01/07/2006 10:31:54 AM PST by F16Fighter
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To: Peach
The Dems plan backfired a little bit with Rosen, didn't it?

Any comment from Joe Biden about this yet?

15 posted on 01/07/2006 10:32:26 AM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Peach

And let's see ... who was Secretary of State at the time

hmmmmmm


16 posted on 01/07/2006 10:34:36 AM PST by Mo1 (Republicans protect Americans from Terrorists. Democrats protect Terrorists from Americans)
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To: Mo1

"It's not clear who originally came up with the idea


...do I smell Maddie Halfbright?


17 posted on 01/07/2006 10:38:15 AM PST by mystery-ak (End Freepathons, become a monthly donor...)
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To: Kaslin

Clinton(s) and "scheme" go together like bacon and eggs.


18 posted on 01/07/2006 10:38:27 AM PST by FerdieMurphy (For English press one. (Don't forget to write, Tookie.))
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To: Kaslin
This comes as no surprise to me since Clinton himself signed off on having a Chinese aerospace firm launch one of our top secret spy satellites. And, golly-gee...wouldn't you know it? When the Chinese rocket went up, it exploded! And there wasn't so much as a nut or bolt of the top secret spy satellite anywhere in the debris field!

Clinton screwed this nation in many more ways than one. And while we seek to clean this mess up, the Clintons will stand on the sideline and criticize every one of our nation's moves to correct the problems they created.

19 posted on 01/07/2006 10:39:31 AM PST by Prime Choice (We are RepubliCANs, not RepubliCAN'Ts.)
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To: nuconvert

Thanks, I bookmarked it for later reading


20 posted on 01/07/2006 10:40:59 AM PST by Kaslin (The terrorists must be allowed to attack us again.... Sincerly A leftwinger)
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