Can’t slam BHO too hard over that one- Bush did actually start that before leaving office, and the UAE also signed a deal with France.

Doesn’t mean I think it’s a good idea, but we shouldn’t knee-jerk without looking closer.

D’ho!!!!!!!!!

There is no “Area 51”

Try asking bout “51 Area”

prior to becoming a nurse i worked in black art nuclear facilities

yes i also have a degree in physics

the photos of the fissile rooms are outrageous

there are many small facilities/labs located in universities that have basically no security

it’s hard to fathom why this was published even though it is not super classified

i wont go into detail, but it wouldn’t be very difficult to obtain “material” in order to make a dirty device

a rapid material accounting needs to happen pronto..the release of these documents just makes me wonder if anyone..anyone at all is in charge of even our most sensitive secrets…i’m thinking no…and i’m thinking it’s by design…with the rabid leftists in charge now and their known sympathies with jihadists…well…i just can’t bring myself to think about these things…please tell me it is all a monstrous dream/joke

JJKRN on June 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Thanks for helping me poop a brick.

Publishing a list of lightly secured labs is never a good thing. It’ll turn into a ‘loose nuke’ scenario like Russia.

“Just because you are paranoid doesn’t mean they are not out to get you.”

Timothy S. Carlson on June 3, 2009 at 10:37 AM

If they’re actually out to get you, you aren’t paranoid.

You can’t willy nilly say something that is sensitive should not be released.

You can say that something that is classified should not be released.

And for all this sites oh woe’d-ness regarding the gaining power of governmet in the Obama era you should all be the last talking about this issue.

If it is sensitive it should be classified, and it wasn’t so too bad.

Logis (11:33AM) made an excellent, critical point: we have just given an “answer key” to any hostile intelligence agencies which were striving to penetrate our nuclear facilities. Now the blighters can check their work.

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

Noocyte on June 3, 2009 at 12:35 PM

Of course. It’s never good to do this. A lot of info can be put together from multiple sources, but as an intel officer, I can tell you that you always have to consider that your info may be inaccurate, even by a little, or (possibly more important) outdated. A document like this, with the info certified to be timely and correct for government purposes — and a date on it — is a gold mine.

It has been equally brilliant to call attention to it. There’s no saying that terrorists would ever have even run across it, on a GPO website (although believe me, foreign intelligence services did).

Of course, the good news is that this document, if terrorist downloaded it themselves, would make it less necessary for them to go to the Russians for this kind of info (which the Russians have a good deal of, as part of our START verification agreements). Minimizing the pretext for contacts of that kind might go in the plus column, if we were really looking for something to put there.

On balance, though, this is a negative event.

Incidentally, by far the best way to get inside a nuclear facility of any kind is to infiltrate the security force (bribery or extortion). The South Africans had a spot of trouble with that in the summer of 2007.

landlines on June 3, 2009 at 12:28 PM

That certainly does put it in a sobering perspective.

Sure, one could have gone to the effort of compiling all of the public domain information in this report…but the act of compiling it would leave foot-prints. Data mining would lead law enforcement agents to the folks who were doing that leg-work…the leg work which the GPO has just rendered unnecessary.

Logis (11:33AM) made an excellent, critical point: we have just given an “answer key” to any hostile intelligence agencies which were striving to penetrate our nuclear facilities. Now the blighters can check their work.

Thanks. Thanks a lot.

That’s because it’s important that the GOP enemy not see that information.

‘especially on nuclear material during a time of terrorist war.’

Ed you retard! We aren’t at war! We’re in the middle of an “Overseas Contingency Operation”. Big difference dude!

/sarc

csdeven on June 3, 2009 at 11:52 AM

No problem!!! It took Al Qaeda 8 years (1993-2001) to cause $40 billion worth of damage to the USA: O’Bama has caused over 300 times the damage ($12 trillion and counting) in less than 6 months!!!

Al Qaeda is both incompetent and hopelessly inefficient.

/sarc>

/snark

JJKRN on June 3, 2009 at 10:26 AM

Who needs to take the material for a dirty bomb when you can just blow up the facility storing the materials?

Time for government run health care.

Johan Klaus on June 3, 2009 at 11:20 AM

Yeah. With ChimpyO and the demoratF**KS in possession of our private medical data, what could go wrong?

especially on nuclear material during a time of terrorist war.

Ed you retard! We aren’t at war! We’re in the middle of an “Overseas Contingency Operation”. Big difference dude!

/sarc

…it tolls for thee, America.

Looks like San Onofre, near Camp Pendleton/Oceanside, CA. 20 miles or so from me.

Patrick S on June 3, 2009 at 11:01 AM

Thanks. When I was in school 20 years ago in SF, all they did is bmw about it. A classmate told me that her husband at San Onofre. He was a specialized diver, highly skilled, who worked on these types of projects but she was afraid people would find out and give her grief about it.