Quote of the day
posted at 10:32 pm on June 2, 2009 by Allahpundit
Steven Aftergood, a security expert at the Federation of American Scientists in Washington, revealed the existence of the document Monday in Secrecy News, an electronic newsletter that he publishes on the web.
He expressed bafflement at its disclosure, calling it “a one-stop shop for information on U.S. nuclear programs.”…
The report details the locations of hundreds of nuclear sites and activities. Each page is marked across the top “HIGHLY CONFIDENTIAL SAFEGUARDS SENSITIVE,” with the exception of pages that detail additional information such as site maps. In his transmittal letter, Mr. Obama said the cautionary language was a classification category of the I.A.E.A.’s inspectors.
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well done.
I_C on June 2, 2009 at 10:33 PM
Look at what has happened to this country in four months.
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 10:35 PM
When we lose a city, will the 0bamatons do the honorable thing and fall on their swords?
SuperCool on June 2, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Obama committing the treason that American refuse to…
doriangrey on June 2, 2009 at 10:35 PM
Is it wrong that I laughed when I read about this? yes, I know it’s a major breach of security and all, but good Lord, it’s funny.
Smarter power and diplomacy and the adults in charge, my arse.
mjk on June 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Oh whoopsies! Thank god we are now officially beyond nuclear weapons…we can close them before they are destroyed by our enemies…because if they did that, some wingnuts would expect us to do something about it…and we just don’t dig their hate.
AUINSC on June 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Anyone know if GM plans to manufacture green clown cars?
flyfisher on June 2, 2009 at 10:36 PM
Transparency…?
d1carter on June 2, 2009 at 10:37 PM
And yes, I am actually worried that someone unfriendly will take this information and do something terrorist-y.
It is quite sad that the messiah can’t seem to govern properly.
mjk on June 2, 2009 at 10:37 PM
Uhh…I hope the Obama’s are home when the D.C. bomb goes off because there will be one going off.
SouthernGent on June 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM
I love the multiple quotes in the NYT story trying to downplay the mistaken release of this document.
Tabris on June 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Oy.
I saw this in a comment in the Moore thread. I was hoping it was a ruse. I can’t fathom the stupidity of those in Obama’s administration.
My only consolation is that I live near Cincinnati. And in the words of either Will Rogers or Mark Twain:
“If the world comes to an end, I want to be in Cincinnati. Everything comes there ten years later.”
BuckeyeSam on June 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM
Our government seems determined to betray us, to leave us as vulnerable to attack as possible.
And we have a president who today admitted to having sympathies for our enemy.
What if FDR had admitted to having “nazi roots” in 1941?
wildcat84 on June 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM
He is governing properly…. For the Anti-Christ that he is…
doriangrey on June 2, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Oh well.
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 10:40 PM
We have a traitor in the highest political power of the United States of America………….
Seven Percent Solution on June 2, 2009 at 10:40 PM
Say, what’s next? The launch codes?
BuckeyeSam on June 2, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Well, on another thread today I posted this:
Presidential Oath of Office
Preamble to the U. S. Constitution:
INC on June 2, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Ooooh, good point. And I laughed kind of sadly when you pointed that out….
mjk on June 2, 2009 at 10:41 PM
Olly Olly All Come Free
We dont need no stinking secrets
Grunt on June 2, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Anyone notice: released just as Obama’s out of the country.
BuckeyeSam on June 2, 2009 at 10:42 PM
“Uhh…I hope the Obama’s are home when the D.C. bomb goes off because there will be one going off.
SouthernGent on June 2, 2009 at 10:39 PM”
Won’t matter to his legions of followers. They will look for him to rise after three days.
Star20 on June 2, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Just give Biden a few days and he’ll give Hamas the keys to the White House, launch codes, and a sack lunch…
mjk on June 2, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Well, I knew this jackass we elected President was going to be bad…but how much worse is this going to get…no, don’t answer that…he’s way ahead of my imagination already.
AUINSC on June 2, 2009 at 10:42 PM
Obama’s new Muslim outreach program at its best.
canditaylor68 on June 2, 2009 at 10:44 PM
…..Well, get ready for the news conference by obama where he blames Bush for this.
HornetSting on June 2, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Not in a million years. It’s America’s fault. You have been targeted for re-education and indoctrination so you can be a better citizen. Pack a bag. The thought police are enroute to your position now.
Hog Wild on June 2, 2009 at 10:44 PM
Well thank Gaia it only included highly secret civilian nuclear sites and not military depots, because those civilian sites are sure to be guarded better than army bases full of trained, heavily-armed troops.
Yessir, hope and change and mushroom clouds.
Bishop on June 2, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I figure with the ‘adults’ in charge, Hamas already has the keys to the Lincoln bedroom.
HornetSting on June 2, 2009 at 10:45 PM
I’m so glad Obama is the POTUS.
elduende on June 2, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Hey Barack, could one of the crack national security geniuses on your staff please Twitter us the US Nuclear Launch Codes too? Thanks a bunch!
Mohammed.
StimulateTHIS on June 2, 2009 at 10:46 PM
Obama already gave them our enhanced interrogation tactics…….
……… now the location of our nuclear programs.
Up next…….
……. How about the destruction codes to our intelligence satellites?
Anyone else see a pattern here………..?
Seven Percent Solution on June 2, 2009 at 10:47 PM
So we, in a stupid show to the Iranians, yield more secret nuclear information to the IAEA than Iran or NK has in all the years of IAEA condemnations, inspections, and the like. Dude.
Weight of Glory on June 2, 2009 at 10:47 PM
I am speechless — except for one question. Is it even remotely possible to impeach this guy? Seriously.
missouriyankee on June 2, 2009 at 10:48 PM
This is clearly George W. Bush’s fault.
califcon on June 2, 2009 at 10:49 PM
Is Obama going to Israel anytime soon? If Obama stands on the temple mount and proclaims that he is God… well, those of us who know the Bible know what happens next.
Seriously, I used to laugh about the possibility. Now I wonder if he really DOES have such delusions of grandeur.
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM
It’s not just the bonehead move of publishing this. Even if we hadn’t done that, we’re apparently giving this sensitive information document to the IAEA just so they can inspect us better. In hopes that other countries like Iran will be inspired to follow our example.
Worst. President. Ever. And he’s just getting started.
Though I still hold out hope that he’ll be impeached one day for stealing from Chrysler and GM bondholders in order to give to his political sycophants in the unions.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on June 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Where’s strangelet now?
How ‘cooltown’ is Obama now, you freak.
AUINSC on June 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM
This
manchild just can’t destroy the county he hates, fast enough.Everyday I am more and more convinced Obama is a functional psychopath.
katy on June 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Only if we could produce 67 clones of Jim Demint and get them elected to the Senate.
wildcat84 on June 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM
With a democratic majority in Congress? Not hardly.
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 10:50 PM
Yeah right!
Mystery my arse. He knew what he was doing when he released them.
Knucklehead on June 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Don’t think it’s stupidity. It’s deliberate. Everyone just assumes it is “stupid” because they think that no one in their right mind would do such things on purpose. Because to do it on purpose would suggest an evil that most people don’t even want to contemplate.
Puddleglum on June 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM
*sigh*
progressoverpeace on June 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM
So now we know where the Vice President goes for safety AND where nuclear sites are located. Hope this makes the Middle East and Europe like us more.
Rightwingguy on June 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Nuclear twitter.
whitetop on June 2, 2009 at 10:51 PM
Speaking of explosions, Drudge has these two headlines up:
Bomb threat AIR FRANCE in S America — Days Before Flight Dissapeared over Atlantic…
May 27, 2009: ‘The airport safety delayed an AIR FRANCE flight this evening before departring for Paris immediately after the company received a bomb threat over the phone at the airport of Ezeiza [Buenos Aires]‘
flyfisher on June 2, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Next week, in a show of good faith to our so-called “enemies”, President Ogabe will have all U.S. ballistic missile submarines outfitted with constantly emitting strobe lights, noise makers and GPS beacons.
Bishop on June 2, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Hey, its all Bush’s fault. Just remember that.
Rightwingguy on June 2, 2009 at 10:52 PM
I can’t remember which thread it is on but didn’t someone mention we have a nice Muslim group located in Tn?
journeyintothewhirlwind on June 2, 2009 at 10:52 PM
Look at this and other topics covered on Hot Air, right now.
Now ask your liberal friends how many they are aware of.
Star20 on June 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM
And stay on the surface and make predictable port calls and publish the routes and…..
Rightwingguy on June 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM
No. Because it will be Bush’s fault.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on June 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM
Wouldn’t it be a hoot upon King Tut’s return to the United States after his trip…………..
…….. that he orders the entire Military of the United States of America to stand down,
while he brings the combined armies of the Muslim and Persian Nations to our shores………?
……………… Sleep on that one.
Seven Percent Solution on June 2, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I’m sorry, you’re right.
Rightwingguy on June 2, 2009 at 10:54 PM
I don’t know what to think.
I asked my dad about it, since he flew for American Airlines.
He explained to me that generally Airbus had problem in extreme weather due to a difference in wing construction.
Due to this wing construction, Airbuses have had difficulty climbing over thunderstorms.
But at the same time, a bomb could explain a sudden loss of all electrical too.
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 10:54 PM
The guy who killed the recruiter had some kind of ties down in TN.
Knucklehead on June 2, 2009 at 10:55 PM
So glad responsible adults are running things now.
GarandFan on June 2, 2009 at 10:55 PM
The trolls are silent tonight. Are they at their presidential knee pad fitting party?
HornetSting on June 2, 2009 at 10:58 PM
Never heard that before and my kid flys that plane everyday. He say’s that and and the A320 are the safest planes in the air.
Knucklehead on June 2, 2009 at 10:58 PM
I don’t know what to think either. Sadly, I no longer trust anything we’re told…about anything.
flyfisher on June 2, 2009 at 10:59 PM
What’s the safest country to move to?
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 10:59 PM
Oh they are safe, I wasn’t told they weren’t safe.
Just that they have a problem climbing as high as, say, a 777.
But he’s also been out a few years. So I mean, just throwing that out there.
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Impeccable timing, along with the “Obama has Muslim roots”.
Next, in two minutes, is Egypt, “I also have Muslim blood”, and “did you know that my middle name is Hussein?”
Schadenfreude on June 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM
Look, this is no ordinary gaffe by a bunch of mouth-breathers…he’s already shutting down our ability to produce nuclear weapons anyway, permanently…I really doubt this is a mistake. I think he’s trading information away to his new friends now…convincing them that we really mean it when we say we don’t care that they arm themselves to the teeth..as long as they love
ushim.AUINSC on June 2, 2009 at 11:00 PM
No such thing. This is a global farking of unprecedented proportions.
The media are all derelict, right after the rest of us fools.
Schadenfreude on June 2, 2009 at 11:01 PM
Reminds me of when TWA went down. All the cops around here did interviews and everyone on the shores said they saw something fly up to that plane..
IDK.
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:02 PM
According to local media, he grew up in Memphis. I own rental property a few blocks from his father’s house. Not many months ago I encountered some Nation of Islam types in that part of town while I was pumping gas. When I got back into my car I commented to my wife that they would as soon kill us as look at us.
flyfisher on June 2, 2009 at 11:03 PM
True.
I used to work on the Airbus. They were purchased by US airlines in large part because they were more fuel efficient due to lightweight construction. The noises that the airbus made on takeoff and landing scared the crap out of me until I got used to it.
The pilots loved them ( glass cockpits were fun to fly). The flight attendants… not so much
katy on June 2, 2009 at 11:04 PM
My dad hated airbus. Always tells me how he hated flying those things and couldn’t wait to get to the seven four, seven three, or triple 7
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:05 PM
This was the same type of plane that crashed in Queens right after 9/11. That plane hit turbulance from a 747 and the pilot over worked the rudder and the tail fell off. They found that the composite on the tail also failed, if I remember correctly. When they said Airbus, I thought about that accident. Terrible tragedy.
HornetSting on June 2, 2009 at 11:05 PM
He really wants to de-nuke the country, doesn’t he?
promachus on June 2, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Worst part about that?
The pilots did what THEY WERE TOLD
They had the special sessions and the brass at AA said:
work the rudders hard when in wake turbulence.
then they did it, and got blamed when the plane downed
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:06 PM
Who’s side is he on again?
ronsfi on June 2, 2009 at 11:07 PM
He’s an enemy of liberty and the USA. That’s all you need to know.
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 11:08 PM
Coincidentally, my parents were supposed to be on that flight, so I’ve thought a lot about it and done as much research as I could. I’m more than a little suspicious of the official story on that flight. I believe Clinton didn’t want it to be terrorism because he didn’t want to be forced to admit we had a terror problem, so it wasn’t terrorism.
flyfisher on June 2, 2009 at 11:09 PM
It’s like we elected Ahmadinejad as our president ……. only worse.
fogw on June 2, 2009 at 11:09 PM
No. Because it will be Bush’s fault.
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on June 2, 2009 at 10:53 PM
[See what happens when you get interrupted?]
ThereGoesTheNeighborhood on June 2, 2009 at 11:10 PM
Yeah, they were trained to do what brought the plane down. That is wild that your Dad is a pilot. I am editing a novel right now, about a plane crash that I wrote a couple of years ago. I watched a lot of plane crash shows, internet research, but to have a pilot to discuss the finer points of flying would have been a dream. I was obsessed with plane crashes, still am. It is always a series of events, four or five, that have to go wrong in order for a crash to occur.
Say thank you to your Dad for keeping passengers safe…..you truly are in God’s and the pilot’s capable hands when you step onto a flying metal tube…as my hubby calls them.
HornetSting on June 2, 2009 at 11:10 PM
You’re dad’s a smart man.
I loved all the Boeings. Best planes in the sky!
My fav. was the triple 7 too.
katy on June 2, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Supposedly the most fuel efficient in the air. Who were you with?
Knucklehead on June 2, 2009 at 11:11 PM
Texas…but I’m getting there first.
Laura in Maryland on June 2, 2009 at 11:13 PM
Your parents are very lucky…
I can’t imagine what it would feel like to be in a plane going down.
Totally helpless, horrible feeling.
He’s considering going back. I keep coaxing him with the thought of the triple sev. again. Who knwos!
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:14 PM
I’m afraid, really really afraid. Obama is like the lead villain in Think Twice by Ayn Rand, luckily he gets murdered right off the bat. Read it y’all, if you haven’t. It’s scary, the parallels.
promachus on June 2, 2009 at 11:15 PM
Scary stuff. Those Y-12 disclosures are really, really bad.
I would say “heads will roll,” but it could be more literal than I intend.
Sad what has happened to this country in a few months.
cs89 on June 2, 2009 at 11:16 PM
Brilliant.
OneGyT on June 2, 2009 at 11:16 PM
I’ve been muttering/cursing lately about McCain’s stupid remark during the campaign about how we have nothing to fear from Obama. I voted for McCain, but please let me say one more time; McCain is a good man, but what a moron.
Laura in Maryland on June 2, 2009 at 11:17 PM
I’m already here. I’ll put up all my Hotair friends until they find a place, if you don’t mind sleeping on the floor side-by-side. ;)
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 11:18 PM
Oh hell no! They’ll blame Boooosh!
gryphon202 on June 2, 2009 at 11:21 PM
I hate to say it, but I think that the 0bama Administration has given up on preventing the next 9/11, and are simply preparing to survive the next 9/11 politically—such as trying to see how soon the terrorists can carry it off, in hopes it is soon enough that they can still blame Bush for it.
Sekhmet on June 2, 2009 at 11:22 PM
If they don’t plenty of people will push them.
izoneguy on June 2, 2009 at 11:23 PM
I can take some of ‘em off your hands. I may not be the best housekeeper, and my townhome is small, but damn, I can COOK!
Sekhmet on June 2, 2009 at 11:23 PM
Ok, time for revolution yet?
How bout now?
Now?
This is where we are, just 4 months in; going to wait around and hope we do better at the next election, if we have a country – is that the plan?
Midas on June 2, 2009 at 11:24 PM
I think either Iran or Al Qaeda are sending barry a message.
There was an arrest of an “al Qaeda” suspect in Brazil last Tuesday. There is one report that he was let go. Tri border region in Brazil is a Jihadi nexus. (Hezbollah, Hamas, AlQaeda, Iran all operate there) Now we have a plane that originated in Brazil go down. There’s a report of a Continental Express flight over Texas reporting a “missle” passing underneath it at 13,000 ft. last friday. And yesterday we happen to have a jihadi from Yemen shoot up a military recruitment office in Arkansas….pattern? coincidence?
elduende on June 2, 2009 at 11:24 PM
And we all know the problems France is having with its Muslim population
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:25 PM
I’ll be standing in line.
Daggett on June 2, 2009 at 11:26 PM
they have a particular hatred for Sarkozy who villified them as “scum” in the banliues riots of 2005
elduende on June 2, 2009 at 11:27 PM
Are you flipping kidding me? Really? Sheeesh!
LEBA on June 2, 2009 at 11:27 PM
There’s a report of a Continental Express flight over Texas reporting a “missle” passing underneath it at 13,000 ft. last friday.
Whaa? Link?
Bishop on June 2, 2009 at 11:28 PM
And ever since they started going after the head scarves
blatantblue on June 2, 2009 at 11:28 PM
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