Obama and the Arrow 3 debacle

Yisrael Hayom ^ | 4/6/13 | Ruthie Blum

[Eleutheria5]

For all its ineptitude, the Obama administration has proved itself capable of closing ranks where lies and cover-ups are concerned. The three major scandals in which it is currently embroiled -- Benghazi, the Justice Department, and the Internal Revenue Service -- are the major cases in point. But other examples abound.

Such fiascoes aside, Israel has been counting on Washington's penchant for the "covert" these days, as Iran sails toward nuclear armament and the rest of the Middle East is in the throes of radicalization. Though U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry keeps making trips to the region to pressure Israel and the Palestinian Authority to negotiate a two-state solution, the assumption on the part of those who believe that the White House "has Israel's back" is that there is much behind-the-scenes military cooperation going on that we don't know about.

Imagine Israel's dismay, then, when Uncle Sam pulled a stunt of truth and transparency this week at the worst possible juncture for the Jewish state.

As was reported by McClatchy's Sheera Frenkel on Monday, the Israeli defense establishment is in an uproar over U.S. government revelations of an American-Israeli project that was supposed to be kept top-secret.

Israel's outrage is warranted.

The project is a U.S.-funded installation -- at an undisclosed location between Jerusalem and Ashdod -- for Israel's Arrow 3 ballistic missile defense system.

Details of the installation, whose cost is estimated at $25 million, were posted on the Federal Business Opportunities website to attract bidding contractors -- a process called "routine" by Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Wesley Miller.

Routine or not, it was unthinkable for the U.S. Defense Department to publicize more than 1,000 pages of the most minute details of a system whose success rests, among other things, on being totally hidden from enemy eyes.

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[Eleutheria5]

Aw, who reads that stuff?/s

[molson209]

Lurch is looking for his Nobel Peace Prize

[SJackson]

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[KC Burke]

I hate to tell you all, FedBizOps is a haphazard system and clerks put stuff up incorrectly all the time.

[Eleutheria5]

It’s already reserved. What’s his hurry?

[stevie_d_64]

I’m sure I missed something along the way when I only have a cursory knowledge of the Arrow system in question...

I thought this system did not require a fixed launch site???

I thought it was a mobile system not requiring much of any, a launch site prep???

And why is the U.S. involved in this deal???

Why is Israel even dealing with us anymore, especially with all the nonsense they’ve put up with for the last 4-5 years from this government???

Something just does not compute...

[Eleutheria5]

So that gives them a scapegoat to blame the leak on, some FBO clerk. All the more reason to believe this might have been planned, but really it’s moot. Must not become parannoyed, must not become pairannoyed.

[Eleutheria5]

Project probably pre-dates O’s inauguration.

[stevie_d_64]

Well it would not surprise me at all if this is a project created and classified before Obama took office...

Obama’s underlings blow the lid off the situation therefore garnering the initial wrath of “why are we spending SOOOOO much money on these projects in ISRAEL!!! of all places!!!”

The crocadile “tears” of outrage these days is palaetable and disgusting...Very disengenuous...