Stupid! highly confidential report reveals location of nuke sites – now public!

The federal government mistakenly made public a 266-page report, its pages marked “highly confidential,” that gives detailed information about hundreds of the nation’s civilian nuclear sites and programs, including maps showing the precise locations of stockpiles of fuel for nuclear weapons. According to of all places, the New York Times, the publication of the document was revealed Monday in an online newsletter devoted to issues of federal secrecy. That set off a debate among nuclear experts about what dangers, if any, the disclosures posed. It also prompted a flurry of investigations in Washington into why the document had been made public. On Tuesday evening, after inquiries from The New York Times, the document was withdrawn from a Government Printing Office Web site. So let me see if I get this straight:

Things that we now can’t keep secret: 1. Nuclear Site Data 2. Enemy Interrogation Techniques  3. Joe the Plumbers personal information

Things that CAN be kept secret: 1. The tax payer expense for a “New York date night” 2. Obama’s school record and birth certificate 3. Air Force One flyovers of lower Manhattan

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June 2, 2009 · Filed Under General Politics


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