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Incompetence Run Amuck

As Obama rushes to appease the world and weaken national security, it is only appropriate that he create a new gaffe in so doing. A couple of weeks ago, Vice President Joe Biden allegedly released the location of the secret underground bunker made for the security of the #2 elected leader in the country. Not to be outdone, President Obama has now released a treasure hunt map for any terrorist or other type of crook to use to fill their weapons wish list.

In an attempt to get Iran to disclose their nuclear program, President Obama thought it would be a good idea for us to give all of our information to the IEAE. He is doing this to open the United States to stricter inspections. No, I'm not making this up. At this point, any logical thinking adult reading this probably would draw the conclusion that this is the gaffe. The naivety of this decision is almost as disheartening as the actual gaffe. One would think that after the knife in the back he got from Castro after agreeing to talk, the President would think twice before taking the first step when dealing with rogue dictators. Wait, that's right. Obama doesn't realize how ridiculous he looked there yet. But I digress.

 

Here is how it happened.

President Obama sent the document to Congress on May 5 for Congressional review and possible revision, and the Government Printing Office subsequently posted the draft declaration on its Web site.

As of Tuesday evening, the reasons for that action remained a mystery. On its cover, the document seems to attribute its publication to the House Committee on Foreign Affairs. But Lynne Weil, the committee spokeswoman, said the committee had “neither published it nor had control over its publication.”

Gary Somerset, a spokesman for the printing office, said it had “produced” the document “under normal operating procedures” but had now removed it from its Web site pending further review.

The document contains no military information about the nation’s stockpile of nuclear arms, or about the facilities and programs that guard such weapons. Rather, it presents what appears to be an exhaustive listing of the sites that make up the nation’s civilian nuclear complex, which stretches coast to coast and includes nuclear reactors and highly confidential sites at weapon laboratories.

David Albright, President of the Institute for Science and National Security  said the information “can provide thieves or terrorists inside information that can help them seize the material, which is why that kind of data is not given out.” It is only due diligence for me to point out that the correct term here is "should not be given out". Yet under this Administration, we are learning quickly that anything can (and probably will) happen.

 

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