Posted on 11/04/2006 5:58:54 PM PST by wagglebee
Four Democratic senators demanded on Saturday that the Bush administration explain its decision to post documents from Saddam Hussein's covert nuclear program on a now-shuttered federal Web site.
The lawmakers told President Bush's director of national intelligence, John Negroponte, that it was "shocking that sensitive documents directly related to the design of a nuclear weapon were made public by the executive branch."
Sens. Harry Reid of Nevada, Carl Levin of Michigan, Joe Biden of Delaware and Jay Rockefeller of West Virginia also questioned whether political pressure from congressional Republicans played a role.
The letter was released just days before congressional elections in which Democrats hope to regain control of the Senate.
Negroponte on Thursday suspended public access to the site Thursday night, after The New York Times asked officials whether the site provided too much information on making atomic bombs for an article it published Friday. Negroponte, who had ordered the documents released, also began a review of the consequences, including who accessed the documents.
Negroponte's spokesman, Chad Kolton, declined to comment on the letter. He noted that Negroponte already has called for a review.
"We disclosed the initiation of a full review of this issue earlier this week," Kolton said by e-mail to The Associated Press.
The documents, mostly in Arabic, were posted since March on a federal Web site called the "Operation Iraqi Freedom Document Portal."
Administration officials say the site was a repository for millions of pages the U.S. government found in Iraq the past 15 years.
The matter adds to the pre-election debate over the threat Iraq poses and which political party is best on security and guarding secrets.
The senators say the Web site was intended to bolster support for Bush's claims that Saddam possessed banned weapons and had ties to al-Qaida.
The senators said it appeared "the administration, under pressure from the chairmen of the congressional intelligence committees and others, has released documents that could facilitate the efforts of terrorists and rogue states to acquire nuclear weapons designs."
They asked Negroponte whether intelligence agencies initially opposed the Web site, but the administration overrode those concerns.
The site represents "a threat to the security of the American people," according to the letter.
I thought the Rats' said there were no WMDs in Iraq.
So Reid crawled out from under that rock he was hiding under.
Reid has no business questioning anyone about anything. Let's question him on his "land deals".
The Rats are trying to do either two things
1. Slam Bush for releasing the documents because of National Security (Say that Bush was trying to influence the election, ect)
2. Get Bush and Rumsfield to say that the documents were fabricated (Prefered choice of the Rats)
AAAAARRRRRRRRRGGGGGGGGHHHHHHHHHHHHh how can we be harmed by something that doesn't exist, never did exist, was a figment of the world's imagination before it was destroyed by slick willie.
The only news coming from this web site that matters is the fact that it reveals WMD were being manufactured in Iraq before we invaded. So of course the Demo'rats need to obscure the real news by trying to create their own. It won't work, at least not for honest folk who desire truth over sleazy politics.
Excellent point, what losers the dims really are and anyone who would vote for any of them needs to have their heads examined, or maybe they already had prefrontal lobotomies and that is the reason for their weirdness.
Hannity will run with that one about the WMD's--there is a special Hannity and Colmes on Sunday night I believe--I am sure he will be talking about it.
And wasn't there a thread on here yesterday pointing out that detailed instructions for building a nuclear weapon or weapons are or have been on other websites?
Again, there's no there, there.
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Basically the ad is slamming the democrats for wanting to end the wire surveillance programs because we don't get warrants first.
If they have their way we'll be nuked sooner rather than later.
Reid should be crushing rocks in Leavenworth. Fricking Rat
Democrats believe in stirring the crap They believe the more you stir it the worse it stinks. What stinks is that they claim no WMD and now they want to claim we are giving information that they claim saddam didnt have to terrorists..
They are nuts.
LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL
Four whining Senators. Lord, the Democrats have no class.
Now that this information about the WMD has been removed from the website we can count on it all being printed in the NYSlimes translated into ten languages so all the arab world can achieve nuclear status.
Wouldn't it be something if there was some disinformation buried in the web site? It would totally *uck up Iran's day and make fools of the RATs. Again.
PROOF READING IS MY FRIEND.
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