Some folks are suggesting that we should go easy on Roy Lee Oakley—the inept contract worker attempted to sell sections of a gaseous diffusion barriers to an FBI agent posing as a French embassy employee—on the grounds that gaseous diffusion is “obsolete and [has been] replaced by cheaper and more efficient methods of uranium enrichment.” …
Did We Flip Tahir, Too?
by | 2007-07-22 | 3 Comments
Hey, you remember Buhary Seyed Abu Tahir? The guy President Bush called the Khan network’s chief financial officer and money launderer? The guy described as a creepy little puke with a man-crush on AQ Khan, tooling around Dubai in a luxury car purchased with the proceeds from his booming business in nuclear weapons technologies? The …
Deploy the Spy Squirrels
by | 2007-07-20 | 10 Comments
I have often wondered, what kind of intelligence capabilities would we need to know whether the Iranians were hiding a nuclear weapons program? Now, eureka. Clearly, we need spy squirrels. Even those cunning Brits are doing it. Thank you NBC blog, this made my day: The official Islamic Republic News Agency reported this week, that …
A. Q. Oakley Bust
by | 2007-07-20 | 8 Comments
Update: Here is the indictment. Gee, first we had the Los Alamos Meth Lab case, then the Sandia Stalker, and now Oak Ridge has A. Q. Oakley. NNSA should have its own episode of Cops. Roy Lynn Oakley, a Bechtel Jacobs contract employee at Oak Ridge, attempted to sell sections of a gaseous diffusion barrier—not …
