MAY 13, 1998 Wednesday : (CLINTON MAKES HIS FOURTH FRANTIC CALL TO PAKISTANI PRESIDENT SHARIF SINCE INDIA'S MAY 11 NUCLEAR TESTS, PLEADING WITH HIM NOT TO CONDUCT A NUCLEAR TEST OF HIS OWN - IN PANIC OVER POSSIBLE IRANIAN MOVES, US OFFICIALS EXPOSE US HUMINT ASSETS TO IRAN) Pres. Bill Clinton made a last-minute plea to Sharif, Wednesday night. According to presidential spokesman Mike McCurry it was a "very intense" 25-minute call in which the president implored the prime minister not to conduct a test. It was the fourth presidential call to Sharif since India's first explosion on May 11. But the test time had been set - 3:00 p.m. in the afternoon of 28 May 1998. -------http://nuclearweaponarchive.org/Pakistan/PakTests.html
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Yes, that was during the "mad scramble." 4 Presidential phone calls to the President of Pakistan from President Clinton himself.
The Clinton Administration had been blind-sided by India's nuclear tests, and the entire Administration was looking completely impotent to stop the Pakistan nuclear tests that followed in that same month of May, 1998.
It was during this "mad scramble" that the Clinton Administration ordered all of our agents in Iran, our field ops, our runners, even our sleeper cells, everyone, to immediately report **everything** that they knew or suspected. The Clintonistas were frightened out of their wits that Iran might further embarrass them with yet another surprise nuclear test that the CIA had missed. They missed India. They couldn't stop Pakistan. A third nation setting off yet another surprise nuclear test right then would have impeached President Clinton (or cost the Dems dearly in the November mid-term elections, at least). This data dump caused a massive communications surge...to the **same** foreign address. ...[See : http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1651291/posts?page=35#35]
[* note- thus exposing all of our assets in Iran]
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