Things that make you go hmmmmmmmmmm.
Hehe. Pretty close to the truth if the same people running the NY slimes were around then.
Off topic.
Check out this letter from the Assistant Attorney General to Senators Durbin and Rockefeller regarding the leak and NSA spying matter.
It was in a PDF file, so the formatting is a little funky.
Solid letter.
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1545567/posts?page=16#16
Another costly Pentagon boondoggle. That thing will never work. Scientists say so.
The problem as I see it is that IF those of the left acknowledge there IS a true threat present requiring the War on Terror they are out of a job forever (or close to it) as they truly have nothing to offer or argue before the American people that will give them any continued credibility, hence their unrelenting attacks on Bush and those in his administration to distract the American people. It must REALLY suck to be a dimboRAT!!
Ping
If I remember correctly there were reporters from NYT and other papers present at Trinity, sworn to secrecy until given the OK from the USG.
How times have changed.
I don't know.
Both the Germans and the Japanese were working on their own and Russia wasn't really in any shape to do so at that point in the war.....
I don't think it would have done much except confirm to our enemies what our intentions were.....
Which is, of course, just as BAD as anything else.
You rock, Doug..suggest you e-mail it to Mark Levin..He'd be better off reading this than talking to imbecilic libs..
I dont disagree with the NYT's decision to run the story.. we do have freedom of the press ...the problem i have is with the idiot who leaked this information to NYT and should be investigated throughly.
This "Manhattan Engineering District" project is a risky scheme, an expensive boondoggle that could destroy mankind. I don't know how the family of Prescott Bush convinced FDR to do this, but the Bush Family Criminal Conspiracy should be made to face the most severe of charges forthwith. For all we know, a fission reaction could run out of control and burn off our atmosphere!
FDR needs to root out the irresponsible, 'swarthy'--and probably fascist--cabal within the Pentagon that started this fiasco and get back to work helping Uncle Joe crush the hun.
This is awful. What could the United States do with such a weapon? What would the world think of us if we used it against Germany or Japan? Surely it would only make the enemy fight that much harder against us, and embolden their resistance. And if the wrong administration got their hands on it, they might even use it against American citizens.
This must be stopped immediately. I have contacted the German and Japanese governments and they have assured me that any research they are carrying out on nuclear fission is purely for power generation, and not for the development of these awful weapons.
Please, Mr. Roosevelt. Stop this madness at once, before we are destroyed!
Very poor analogy.
Citing the Manhattan project where more than a dozen of the inside people working for the government were reporting to Moscow daily, hardly equates with a newspaper story.
If it is indeed an acceptable analogy, then one has to wonder just who on the inside is again working both sides of the street.
My question is, if the NYT found out about the Japanese plans for Pearl Harbor, would they have reported THAT story?
Well done. Unfortunately, it strikes a bit too close to home. The Pubs need to demand the leakers head on a platter.
I think the NYT would have played up the "cause the sky to catch on fire destroying all life on the entrie planet" angle with much more panic.
They would have also been insistant on asking if the USA intended to share the technology with the NYT's hero, Joe "the commie" Stalin.
Pursuant to the lawful instructions of Congress:
"the President is hereby authorized and directed to employ the entire naval and military forces of the United States and the resources of the Government to carry on war against the Imperial Government of Japan; and, to bring the conflict to a successful termination, all of the resources of the country are hereby pledged by the Congress of the United States."
President Roosevelt imposed press censorship on December 19, 1941.
and if this story doesn't get traction, next week the NYT would report about some nefarious activity at a place called Bletchly Park(sp?)
(ULTRA, being a major source of actionable intelligence would probably be more analagous to the current situation)
Don't forget the human interest story they would run about how Native Americans are contributing to the war effort by using their native tongue as an unbreakable method of sending coded transmissions.
(We were after all helping defend their Uncle Joe Stalin.)