Making Nuclear Technology Available to T errorists

“Anyone following the story about how Republicans who wanted to bolster the case for Saddam having WMDs ended up making nuclear technology information widely available?

One story:

U.S. Web Archive Is Said to Reveal a Nuclear Primer

By WILLIAM J. BROAD
November 3, 2006

Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who had said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.

But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.

Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”

More at:
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03documents.html?ref=todayspaper”

“Another story:

Sat Nov 4, 2:01 AM ET

NEW YORK (Reuters) - Scientists at a U.S. weapons lab complained more than two weeks ago that captured Iraqi documents containing sensitive nuclear information were available on the Web site that the government shut down on Thursday, The New York Times reported on Saturday.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/nm/20061104/ts_nm/security_internet_iraq_dc”

“yeah, in the other thread ... we've already touched on this - check the Media Bias thread. LOL

NYT - can they be anymore hypocritical?”