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FBI Official Defends Radiation Monitoring (program stopped)
AP/Yahoo News ^ | Dec. 23, 2005 | LARRY MARGASAK,

Posted on 12/23/2005 7:07:18 PM PST by FairOpinion

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Why is there a need to defend such a sensible thing, to try to prevent a major catastrophy of a nuclear attack on a US city?!

Has the entire country gone mad?

1. People object to simple, useful measures to try to prevent such an attack.

2. Top secret information is disclosed by our domestic enemies, which seriously harms national security, endangering OUR lives.

3. Now they are disclosing that the program was stopped, so the terrorists in the US don;t have to worry that we may discover where they are hiding the nukes they plan to detonate.

""Asked about the program's status, the official said, "I'd understood it had been stopped or significantly rolled back" as early as eight months ago."

1 posted on 12/23/2005 7:07:19 PM PST by FairOpinion
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To: FairOpinion
I believe when worshipers coming out of a Mosque start glowing in the dark it's probably pretty good sign that they have radio active material...


2 posted on 12/23/2005 7:10:07 PM PST by darkwing104 (Let's get dangerous)
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To: FairOpinion
STOPPED!

These useless effin Liberals are dead set on getting us all killed. It's damn time we start demanding special prosecutors for the leaker's, if we can have a special prosecutor assigned to the hose bag Valerie Plame's outing, we damn sure need a special prosecutor for these last two top secret leaks

3 posted on 12/23/2005 7:12:08 PM PST by MJY1288 (THE DEMOCRATS OFFER NOTHING FOR THE FUTURE AND THEY LIE ABOUT THE PAST)
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To: FairOpinion

I would say if they weren't doing such a thing, federal authorities would be irresponsible and incompetent. People that think this is all a game are too dense to bother engaging in argument.


4 posted on 12/23/2005 7:13:13 PM PST by stevem
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To: FairOpinion

So when, under a Democrat-led administration, authorities decide that niceties such as search warrants are not required, you'll be happy to have BATF agents search your place for tobacco remains, as part of the war-on-cancer?


5 posted on 12/23/2005 7:13:16 PM PST by sadimgnik
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To: FairOpinion

H A RD TO TYP HE AD BOUT TO XPL ODE


6 posted on 12/23/2005 7:16:56 PM PST by Texas_Jarhead
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They were NOT going into people's homes, they were driving around on public streets with radiation monitors.

It's sad, that you can't tell the difference.

There was no outrage, when Reno sent armed Federal Agents to illegally arrest a 6-year old child, Elian, but there is an outrage, when radiation monitors are used by the government OUTSIDE, to identify if anyone is hiding a nuke, planning a catastrophic attack on the country.

THIS is the insanity.


7 posted on 12/23/2005 7:18:04 PM PST by FairOpinion (Merry Christmas!)
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"Why is there a need to defend such a sensible thing, to try to prevent a major catastrophy of a nuclear attack on a US city?!"

Because the media deliberately misrepresents or sensationalizes their stories in order to create a mood of suspicion in America. They want to bring the Bush Administration down and will do anything to succeed. Dishonesty, deception and publishing national security secrets are mere minor details as far as the msm are concerned.

"Has the entire country gone mad?"

You could write a whole book to answer this question. Suffice to say half the country is going either pagan, socialist, communist, homosexual, or in general falling into a mood of rebellion against what is good and right. The media are the liars and rabble rousers behind this movement.

8 posted on 12/23/2005 7:18:34 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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Shouldn't someone be in jail for blabbing about this? In the cell next to the person who blabbed about the NSA last week?


9 posted on 12/23/2005 7:20:46 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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So when, under a Democrat-led administration, authorities decide that niceties such as search warrants are not required, you'll be happy to have BATF agents search your place for tobacco remains, as part of the war-on-cancer?

Classified information has been leaked and published.

To hell with those niceties when you are fighting a War-on-the-War-on-Terror. Right?

10 posted on 12/23/2005 7:22:52 PM PST by FreeReign
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""Has the entire country gone mad?""

I believe it's on the verge of a complete nervous breakdown.


11 posted on 12/23/2005 7:23:45 PM PST by Niuhuru
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"So when, under a Democrat-led administration, authorities decide that niceties such as search warrants are not required, you'll be happy to have BATF agents search your place for tobacco remains, as part of the war-on-cancer?"

This is why liberals are such sleazy liars. Nobody (but you) has said that "search warrants are not required". Search warrants are typically used in criminal cases, this is warfare we're engaged in....HUGE difference.

But then again, it seems like the a$$hole liberals don't want to defend against a possible chemical or biological attack; (though they don't fool a soul, all they really want to do is try to sully Bush's image). Clinton spied on Americans without a warrant per his own Executive Order and none of the liberals even whimpered about it.

If you want to get attacked by the muslims again then I'd suggest you take your a$$ to Iraq and wear a "I Love Saddam" T-shirt. Meanwhile, the rest of we Americans want to defend our nation, so have a happy trip.

12 posted on 12/23/2005 7:27:24 PM PST by TheCrusader ("The frenzy of the mohammedans has devastated the Churches of God" Pope Urban II ~ 1097A.D.)
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I suppose if law enforcement heard screaming, they couldn't listen to it without a warrant, according to the MSM.

How does radiation monitoring constitute a 'search?' All they are doing is capturing RELEASED particles.

The MSM is either stupid or deliberately pretending to be.

13 posted on 12/23/2005 7:27:44 PM PST by atomicpossum (Replies should be as pedantic as possible. I love that so much.)
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...we damn sure need a special prosecutor for these last two top secret leaks.

You're absolutely right. Leakers in the intelligence community is frightening thing. It raises the question: Who's side are they on?

14 posted on 12/23/2005 7:28:18 PM PST by RedRover
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There's a war on and you appear to want to give the enemy the opportunity to keep a nuclear weapon in the home.

BTW, my neighborhood was one of the "sites" regularly patrolled. Most of the Moslems around here were "on our side" since they were from Afghanistan, or had defected from Iraq. However, Saudi AlQaida operatives had earlier encamped in a number of units in a townhouse development nearby and they'd done the "ground support" work for the hijackers who attacked the Pentagon.

I'm very happy to hear someone bothered to look for nukes. You never know what a bunch of terrorists might leave behind.

15 posted on 12/23/2005 7:29:00 PM PST by muawiyah (-)
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What's with Matt Drudge??

He's got this story on a HUGE banner headline. He led the charge on the NSA story too, in big red letters (literally). Michelle Malkin sort of took him behind the woodshed for it.

I like Drudge's site, but does he play both sides sometimes, or what?


16 posted on 12/23/2005 7:30:38 PM PST by Cringing Negativism Network
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That monitoring program sounds like a good idea.

But come to think of it, what about the muslim food? Some of that spiced meat smothered in raw onions, a little hummus on the side.

The resulting gas emissions could set off a flurry of false alarms on those radiation detectors.


17 posted on 12/23/2005 7:31:24 PM PST by reasonisfaith (To become an atheist you must think like a one year old infant)
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This could set precedents for meth lab prosecutions, where the clanlab guys track down a lab by the smells of cooking meth, from public land.

And some city PDs issue pocket radiation detectors, that look like beepers or cell phones.


18 posted on 12/23/2005 7:32:31 PM PST by DBrow
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How does radiation monitoring constitute a 'search?' All they are doing is capturing RELEASED particles.

The right of the people to be secure in their radioactive particle releases shall not be violated.

*Glow*

19 posted on 12/23/2005 7:34:46 PM PST by FreeReign
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U.S. News and World Report first reported the program on Friday.

Aren't there criminal sanctions for revealing classified information? Let me know when the b*stards are in jail and their facility shuttered.

20 posted on 12/23/2005 7:34:47 PM PST by Tax Government (Defeat the evil donkey.)
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