I don't care about the anti-war crowd. This was freaking retarded. This was dangerous. Hussein was close to building a nuke, and we had the bright idea of putting all his research on the internet for Osama and Iran to download to help them along.
While we can cheer that Iraq was dangerous, we just made the world more dangerous. It pisses me off that we didn't think that maybe advanced nuclear diagrams on the internet might not be so hot of an idea.
The proper thing to do would have been to shown them to the Senate Intelligence Committee under a closed briefing, allowed no copies, just a briefing, and have the President announce it to the nation. You don't put it on the internet.
Who knows what got out and what didn't. Remember, this is a "hit piece" by the NYTs to turn an election. Don't lose sleep over it.
Sounds to me like their was a lot of oversight - if you read from that viewpoint.
"It pisses me off that we didn't think that maybe advanced nuclear diagrams on the internet might not be so hot of an idea."
Did you know that only about 5 percent of the documents have been translated? The documents have been put out in large volumes. The probability of anyone knowing before the fact that these were nuke weapons documents is almost nil. The probablilty that they were put out because we do not have nearly enough Arab/English translators, and were not dangerous is a very high probablity.
I don't think these were translated before being put out.