The program is not some space weapon. Rockefeller has backed off the “dangerous” comment. “He was referring to the fact that it was a misallocation of funds,” his spokeswoman Wendy Morigi told AP. That still leaves the question of its identity open. There is a pretty strong school of though suggesting the satellite program in …
SpySats: Sometimes It's Just a Cigar
by | 2004-12-09 | No Comments
Senator Jay Rockefeller (D-WV) recently refused to support the intelligence bill due to his “strenuous objection—shared by many in our committee—to a particular major funding acquisition program that I believe is totally unjustified and very wasteful and dangerous to national security.” He went on to say: But the Senate has voted for the past 2 …
Another North Korea Intelligence Summary
by | 2004-12-09 | No Comments
I always appreciate it when Jeffrey plugs my scribbling, but I will add something further. This is a more recent article about North Korea’s nuclear programs. The section on the enrichment program reads: North Korea denies U.S. charges that it has a gas centrifuge-based uranium-enrichment program. Little is known about this program, including the location …
North Korea: Intelligence Under Complexity
by | 2004-12-08 | No Comments
A North Korean poster from the UCLA Asia Institute. Sig Harrison has a review of intelligence assessments about North Korea’s uranium enrichment program in Foreign Affairs which concludes “those assessments were exaggerated and blurred the important distinction between weapons-grade uranium enrichment … and lower levels of enrichment …” Josh Marshall says that “precisely what Harrison …
