Look at this!
But the most damaging thing about the leaks to the Post was this piece of intelligence:
“Experts at the Sandia National Laboratories in New Mexico ran the schematics [for the Shahab-3 nuclear-capable warhead] through computer simulations. They determined two things: The drawings were an effort to expand the nose cone of the Shahab-3 to carry a nuclear warhead, and the modification plans, if executed, would not work.”
Now, developing the intelligence and the computer capabiltities to come that conclusion cost the United States hundreds of billions of dollars and fifty years of nuclear weapons expertise to develop. Thanks to a dumb reporter at the Washington Post, we just gave it to the Iranians for thirty-five cents.
Dirty SOB's!!
Say, this author wouldn't be the same Kenneth R. Timmerman recently nominated for a Nobel Peace Prize along with John Bolton, would it? :-P
Timmerman has been trouble for some time now and that he's leaking important information to let the Iranians know what will and won't work should be reason enough to put a sock in him and lock him away for a while.
Have I mentioned that I hate the media? I'd like to think there were days when leakers would approach the media and the media had enough sense not to print some things, but I'm probably being naive.