Short answer, yes. I don't know if it's been mentioned yet or not, but the was a similar last minute El Baradei story just before the 2004 election. I believe the subject was dangerous and/or nuke materials left unsecured in Iraq. This has become a habit with Hajii El Baradei. The people in the White House need to get their facts together, avoid panic, act confident (the MSM sharks will smell fear and "blood in the water", a calm and dispassionate explanation will throw the MSM bozos off their game plan). It will also help if they can advise all the usual GOP suspects (Warner, McCain, Specter, etc) to keep their powder dry until the circumstances are explained.
Yes! Found exactly what I knew had to be out there:
This gets better and better. One of the Times experts, Peter Zimmerman, says this in the Times article.
Peter D. Zimmerman, a physicist and former United States government arms scientist now at the war studies department of King’s College, London, called the posted material “very sensitive, much of it undoubtedly secret restricted data.”
But as Tom Maguire points out, back in August 2003 he had a different story.
President Bush said that in the early 1990s Iraq “had an advanced nuclear weapons development program, had a design for a nuclear weapon and was working on five different methods of enriching uranium for a bomb.” Not exactly.
Nuclear weapons experts serving as inspectors for the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) called the bomb “design” more of a parts list than a description of a buildable device. The five ways to enrich uranium really boiled down to two – electromagnetic separation and gas centrifuges, neither working well. Iraq’s crude experiments in the 1990s showed that it was a very long way from nuclear success.
http://www.polipundit.com/
I just hope that Tony Snow and Rush and others know about this quote. Everybody needs to know just what kind of game the NYT and the democrats are playing.
500 tons of explosives missing.