Another secret revealed: CBS exposes western sabotage of Iranian nuke equipment
posted at 7:32 pm on May 23, 2007 by Allahpundit
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As was the case yesterday, it’s not much of a secret. But they’re putting it out there anyway, I guess just to make Iranian media’s job that much easier.
CBS News has learned that Iran is continuing to make progress on its expanded efforts to enrich uranium — in spite of covert efforts by U.S. and other allied intelligence agencies to actively sabotage the country’s nuclear program…
Sources in several countries involved told CBS News that the intelligence operatives involved include former Russian nuclear scientists and Iranians living abroad. Operatives have sold Iran components with flaws that are difficult to detect, making them unstable or unusable…
Senior government representatives, who spoke to CBS News on condition that neither they nor their country be identified, pointed to the case of the exploding power supplies. Installed at the pilot enrichment facility at Natanz in April 2006 as Iran was first attempting to enrich uranium, the power supplies, used to regulate voltage current, blew up, destroying 50 centrifuges…
Sources familiar with the U.S. effort against Iran tell CBS News that U.S. intelligence agencies have run several programs in recent years, employing different techniques, including modifying components in hard-to-detect ways and making subtle changes to technical documents and drawings, rendering them useless.
Clinton tried this idea too. It didn’t work out so well.
Actually, the more interesting part of the CBS piece is the second half, where they get into details of the nuclear black market Iran’s built. It may be even more sophisticated than the one run by A.Q. Khan, says expert David Albright — and that’s not the first time we’ve heard that lately. The western hub appears to be based in Frankfurt and involves “diplomats” smuggling out parts in diplomatic bags. The five Quds Force members we captured in Irbil were described as “diplomats” too, if I recall correctly.
The UN released its latest report today on Iran’s nuclear program. They’re getting closer to the bomb, they’re not answering inspectors’ questions, and naturally everyone except the United States is against taking any serious action to stop them.
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Is this the New Media: The TBC?
Traitor Broadcasting Confederation?
All the Secrets We Can Steal.
profitsbeard on May 23, 2007 at 7:38 PM
Oh, it’s fine. Turns out there’s no such thing as the “War on Terror” anyway. Just ask a Democrat!
Citizen Duck on May 23, 2007 at 7:38 PM
CBS and ABC are putting her life in danger. The Iranians will try her and hang her and Western media are complicit. She’s a real person who’s going to lose her life so ABC and CBS can get a “scoop”.
The Apologist on May 23, 2007 at 7:40 PM
“naturally everyone except the United States is against taking any serious action to stop them.”
Not exactly true:
crosspatch on May 23, 2007 at 7:46 PM
You know, I’m a firm believer that every dog has his day. The media and their prostitutes who betray our country will all get whats coming someday. I just hope I’m around to see it.
Zorro on May 23, 2007 at 7:47 PM
awww, poor Iran. Now they have to completely disassemble their entire nuclear program because they have no idea which parts are defective or in what way. Sucks to be them I suppose.
crosspatch on May 23, 2007 at 7:48 PM
Just exactly when will treason meet justice?
Perhaps the DOJ more interested in prosecuting Border Agents than traitors?
Speakup on May 23, 2007 at 7:49 PM
On ABC World News Tonight this evening they had a remark from El Baridi(sp) that the only choice left was containment and to let them continue. What a great U.N. inspector he is. Glad to know he has our back.
Limerick on May 23, 2007 at 7:52 PM
From that article—What the he11 is Soros doing in Iran?!
IrishEi on May 23, 2007 at 7:52 PM
“What a great U.N. inspector he is.”
That’s why the US is now attempting to get him kicked out of that position and France is actually on our side this time.
crosspatch on May 23, 2007 at 7:57 PM
Read this article in the jpost.
crosspatch on May 23, 2007 at 8:00 PM
Mark Levin was just talking about this. He worked at the DOJ for a time and says that whenever anything is leaked like this, there is an immediate investigation. Problem is that the leaker is usually a low level malcontent and it is nearly always impossible to find out who it is.
I always thought that the CIA, FBI, etc. operated under codes similar to the military, i.e. no matter what their political leaning, their loyalty would always be to their country and the commander in chief. Maybe that’s true for the operatives (I hope!) but not so much for the clerks and secretarial types.
What a sorry state we are in.
IrishEi on May 23, 2007 at 8:01 PM
First the NYT, then CNN and then ABC and now CBS, I guess they are all trying to see who can out betray each other. Or perhaps they think that if they all commit treason the DOJ won’t go after any of them. If our elected officials were all a bunch of traitors heads would be rolling right now. The board of directors of those media outlets seriously needs the Ethel and Julius Rosenberg treatment.
doriangrey on May 23, 2007 at 8:09 PM
It’s too bad that CBS, NBC, ABC, CNN, and MSNBC don’t have stations in Iran. We’d know ALL the Iranian government’s secrets if they did. Prosecute them!
Mojave Mark on May 23, 2007 at 8:09 PM
no wonder foreign governments treat journalists like spies .. they ARE.
crosspatch on May 23, 2007 at 8:13 PM
The Democrats are right here isn’t a War on Terror there’s a War on America. I’ll let Hot Air commenters decide who the enemey combatants are…
aengus on May 23, 2007 at 8:15 PM
we are in for a LONG fall, Hope it doesn’t take that long to
come back from it.
Imploding selfdestruction….
-Wasteland Man.
WastelandMan on May 23, 2007 at 8:31 PM
I doubt that anyone got the news from CBS. Just look at their ratings.
DannoJyd on May 23, 2007 at 9:21 PM
Anyone remember the story that declassified about Reagan’s team which had passed on bogus technological data to a known spy? It involved oil extraction/drilling methods. Long story short is that the Russians had a monstrous explosion in the middle of Siberia that set back their efforts to get hard currency from oil revenues.
Bradky on May 23, 2007 at 9:24 PM
Only way our secrets are safe from the MSM is broacasting them on either P-MSNBC or CBS
Defector01 on May 23, 2007 at 9:58 PM
If it’s classified material then somebody responsible should be in big trouble.
A low level malcontent can spend a few years in jail along with the guy who let the low level guy have access.
Fantasy land.
Speakup on May 23, 2007 at 10:36 PM
Too bad we don’t “sabbotage” their program with a hail of jdams.
Buck Turgidson on May 23, 2007 at 10:37 PM
Somebody sabotaged my spell-checker.
Buck Turgidson on May 23, 2007 at 10:39 PM
Another day, another
leakcouple of leaks from a CIA that has forgotten for whom they work. Meanwhile, lots of Columbia J-school grads are busy not filling barstools meant for honest folk this fine Spring evening.HerrMorgenholz on May 23, 2007 at 11:18 PM
From a link above
If there were any truth to this, does Soros think he’s king of the world?
(don’t get me wrong, I don’t likely believe the Iranian’s out of hand or at all, I also don’t put it past Soros to be conducting his own unilateral foreign policy either)
Topsecretk9 on May 23, 2007 at 11:39 PM
“does Soros think he’s king of the world?”
No, just the self-appointed king of American liberalism. You can do that when you own the Democratic Party bought and paid for.
crosspatch on May 24, 2007 at 3:16 AM
What bother me most about Iran is that the world should have the military capabilty to do something about Iran without the help of the US. They want it both ways.
tomas on May 24, 2007 at 9:25 AM
tomas,
The world does have the military capabilty to do something about Iran without the help of the US, they just dont have the balls to do it. They are afraid of getting their hands dirty or of maybe dying for what they pretend to believe in.
doriangrey on May 24, 2007 at 11:46 AM
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