Senator Pete Domenici (R-NM) sent out a press release announcing that the Appropriations Conferees “have agreed to drop funding for continued research on the Robust Nuclear Earth Penetrator (RNEP) project…” The House had eliminated DOE funds for RNEP, while the Senate recommended $4.0 million. The real shock: NNSA asked the conferees to do it. Apparently, …
TPM: No Second Source on Niger Claims
by | 2005-10-25 | 2 Comments
I started this blog to be on record so I could say “I told you so.” Josh Marshall reports that—despite what the T-Bone and the FCO have claimed—Britain did not have a second source for their bogus claim the Iraq was pursuing Niger: So, wait! Didn’t the Brits have some other source of intelligence for …
Ceci n'est pas une pipe
by | 2005-10-24 | No Comments
Nick Schwellenbach, writing on the POGO blog, noticed that the “generic country” in some Air Force slides looked suspiciously like Iran: Three of the Power Point slides used in a presentation on the Air Force’s Future Total Force plan featured an unnamed country littered with targets in a hypothetical US air attack. [snip] As an …
What's the NSC Up To With North Korea?
by | 2005-10-24 | No Comments
David Sanger in the New York Times reports “a previously undisclosed incident in June” involving trade between Iran and North Korea: … American satellites tracked an Iranian cargo plane landing in North Korea. The two countries have a history of missile trade – Iran’s Shahab missile is a derivative of a North Korean design – …
