Obama to Share Missile Defense Secrets With Russia?

BigPeace.com ^ | 1/4/12 | Joel B. Pollak

[ColdOne]

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports that President Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to convey information about secret American missile defense technology to Russia:

In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama said restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on U.S. Standard Missile-3 velocity burnout parameters might impinge on his constitutional foreign policy authority.

As first disclosed in this space several weeks ago, U.S. officials are planning to provide Moscow with the SM-3 data, despite reservations from security officials who say that doing so could compromise the effectiveness of the system by allowing Russian weapons technicians to counter the missile. The weapons are considered some of the most effective high-speed interceptors in the U.S. missile defense arsenal.

There are also concerns that Russia could share the secret data with China and rogue states such as Iran and North Korea to help their missile programs defeat U.S. missile defenses.

Even before this latest revelation, the entire enterprise of President Obama’s disarmament policy–from “reset” with Russia to selling out our European allies–had been a c

[Texas Fossil]

He knows he’s going to lose. I’m afraid we ain’t seen nothing yet.. He’s going for it

BUMP!

[riverdawg]

” ... it was Ronnie Reagan (AKA “GOD” in some precincts) who first offered to share ABM specs with the Russkis, ...”

As I wrote in an earlier post, this was a negotiation tactic to appease our European “allies” and induce them to support our R&D on SDI. Reagan had no intention of giving useful technical data to the Soviets. In fact, to the contrary, there was an active and very successful disinformation program during the Reagan administration that leaked faulty engineering specs to the Soviets for everything from gas turbines to oil-drilling equipment. This is all well-documented in many books, one of my favorites being Peter Schweizer’s “Victory”.

[Plummz]

I dunno, I don’t think he likes Russia, Putin is too anti-communist for Obama.

It’s more likely the White House would share that information with the Chinese. (Or maybe Israel or NATO...) Russia doesn’t seem very likely.

[cunning_fish]

SDI was a bluff, there were no actual specs to pass. If there were, Reds could have it as fast as it were first tested.

[riverdawg]

“SDI was a bluff, there were no actual specs to pass.”

That's my point. But the Soviets weren't certain of that at the time, and subsequently folded their cards in response to the apparent threat. The Reagan administration waged an active and extremely successful disinformation program with regards to many types of critical technologies that were of interest to the Soviet military and industrial sectors. Many of the technical specs that were stolen or bought by the Soviets were bogus, the result of a deliberate plan to pass flawed (or, in the case of SDI, made-up) blueprints and documents to them. This program cost the Soviets tens of billions of dollars and yielded them nothing of value in return.