Posted on 02/07/2011 3:39:08 PM PST by Kaslin
Alliances: When spies give military secrets to a foreign power, it's espionage. When an American president does it, betraying an ally to befriend a longtime foe, what do we call it?
According to diplomatic cables obtained by Britain's Daily Telegraph, mined from the thousands of classified documents released by WikiLeaks, the U.S. government agreed to provide Russia with information on the British nuclear deterrent as part of the deal behind the ratification and signing of the New START treaty.
Specifically, the Telegraph reports, the U.S. provided Moscow with the serial numbers of each Trident missile in the British ballistic missile submarine inventory. The Russians presumably already know how many Tridents the British have but can't be sure. British policy has been to refuse to confirm the exact size of its relatively tiny arsenal.
Last year, British Foreign Secretary William Hague disclosed that Britain had "up to 160" warheads operational at any one time, but he did not disclose the total number of missiles and warheads in its nuclear inventory. Duncan Lennox, editor of Jane's Strategic Weapons Systems, says: "They want to find out whether Britain has more missiles than we say we have, and having the unique identifiers might help them."
The State Department denies this, and spokesman P.J. Crowley said via Twitter that the U.S. simply "carried forward requirement to notify Russia about U.S.-UK nuclear cooperation from the 1991 treaty." So why did we, according to the Telegraph, have to ask Britain in 2009 for permission with detailed and classified information on the British Tridents, permission that was reportedly denied?
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By the time Obama is out of office, we will have no allies left in the world.
...betrayal of the west,
....betrayal of our allies that reach back to the Christian crusades.
......betrayal of the American people
Paints a nasty picture, wrought with treason.
And not a comment from Congress.
That is assuming there is a functioning modern world assuming we make it long enough to get rid of 0.
0 seems hell bent on blowing up the modern world.
Not only has he made the US the laughing stock in the world, he has also made the world hate us
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By the time Obama is out of office, we will have no allies left in the world.
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Looks like writer/commentator Mark Steyn (sp?) is a prophet.
He seems to nailed one prophecy with his book “America Alone”.
O Riely could of brought this up yesterday on national TV
obama was watching braveheart for this one. mel goes. i’m going to pick a fight!
Worth having that is.
We need to see the exact cables to get to the bottom of this.
Let the British Crown issue an arrest Warrant for B.O. so that if he ever sets foot on crown soil he goes in the slammer to await trial on charges. I'm sure that there are some astute British Barrister Freepers that can name the appropriate charges.
Just when you thought it could not get worse. Obama is a despicable traitor to our country, allies and all freedom loving people. I feel that we have a disciple of Satan in the White House. God help the free world!!! OIF vet
Someone's gotta pave the way for Ron Paul! /kidding
We did this to secure Russia’s agreement to the New Start, a dubious enterprise at best. Except, the Russians were the ones anxious to sign, they were the ones threatening to throw a fit if we didn’t sign, so why did we have to bribe them with British intel?
It sounds to me like detailed information on British nuclear missiles was a freebie.
BTTT
Since the sos denied this, the telegraph has the obligation to release the cables they claim to have reviewed is reporting the story.
Otherwise, this story is not going to move forward.
The State Department denies this, and spokesman P.J. Crowley said via Twitter that the U.S. simply "carried forward requirement to notify Russia about U.S.-UK nuclear cooperation from the 1991 treaty."
It doesn't sound like a very flat denial. It sounds like they are choosing their words, a denial that doesn't quite deny. Still, since we're in this deep, I'd like to see cables too.
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