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Are Our Nuclear Secrets Safe In Obama's Hands?
IBD Editorials ^ | December 23, 2011 | Editor

Posted on 12/23/2011 5:34:40 PM PST by Kaslin

Inviting Espionage: The administration is considering reviving a '90s-era nuclear scientist exchange program with China. Does no one in the White House remember how much damage the previous arrangement caused?

Of the many regrettable initiatives dreamed up by the Clinton administration, few were as perverse as the nuclear scientist exchange program. The arrangement turned out to be a gift to the Chinese, who were able to steal U.S. nuclear secrets virtually in plain sight.

Either unable or unwilling to learn from the past, the Obama administration wants to bring the program back. The Washington Times reports that "Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman is working on a major Obama administration initiative that would renew scientist exchanges between U.S. nuclear weapons laboratories and Chinese nuclear facilities."

The 1990s version of the exchanges yielded unprecedented espionage. How bad was it? An internal lab document obtained and reported by IBD in 1999 indicated that "during the Clinton administration, the number of Chinese nationals working" at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico had "catapulted 411%."

We're not saying every Chinese worker at the lab was a spy. But Congress found at least 13 suspected spies gained lab access without proper CIA or FBI vetting. Why open U.S. labs to scientists from a nation that had already been stealing our nuclear secrets for decades?

(Excerpt) Read more at news.investors.com ...


TOPICS: Editorial; Foreign Affairs
KEYWORDS: nationalsecurityfail; nuclearsecrets; obama
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To: Kaslin
Either unable or unwilling to learn from the past...

Oh, hussein learned from the past. This is intentional. Why is hussein obama not in prison for treason? Seriously, why isn't he?

21 posted on 12/23/2011 6:09:52 PM PST by ThunderSleeps (Stop obama now! Stop the hussein - insane agenda!)
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To: Kaslin

Of course not.........


22 posted on 12/23/2011 6:13:15 PM PST by hosepipe (This propaganda has been edited to include some fully orbed hyperbole...)
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To: Kaslin

If you have to ask, then the ? answers itself


23 posted on 12/23/2011 6:38:58 PM PST by drypowder
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To: Kaslin
Either unable or unwilling to learn from the past, the Obama administration wants to bring the program back.

Incorrect on both counts. They are able and willing to learn from the past. They saw how much damage it did and want to repeat the damage.

24 posted on 12/23/2011 6:45:10 PM PST by 17th Miss Regt
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To: Kaslin
Deputy Energy Secretary Daniel B. Poneman
Add one more to the prosecutions list.
25 posted on 12/23/2011 6:51:06 PM PST by bksanders (Spewing Forth Vitriol at the Speed of Spit)
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To: Kaslin

No. Moreover, if Obama doesn’t win again, he may well see to it a nuke blows on shore in US. That’ll teach us a lesson, just like last time we were attacked on shore / sardonic. If there is any truth to the “truthers” it’s more likely the Demoncrats allowed it.


26 posted on 12/23/2011 6:57:50 PM PST by GreatRoad (O < 0)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing is safe in President Trainwreck’s hands. He has the reverse Midas touch.


27 posted on 12/23/2011 7:00:48 PM PST by The_Media_never_lie
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To: Kaslin

It seemed clear that the Clintons got campaign money from the Chinese in exchange for satellite/missile intel (LORAL et al). What has been the source of The Won’s $1B+ warchest? Since it is hidden from FEC scrutiny (no public funds and exempt from audit), we’ll never know if secrets were sold for campaign contributions a la the 1st black President.


28 posted on 12/23/2011 7:00:56 PM PST by SERKIT ("Blazing Saddles" explains it all......)
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To: Kaslin

They obviously don’t understand that we must destroy this country at all costs and if Obama can’t get re-elected, well then this will make sure the country goes down regardless of who is President. Got it.


29 posted on 12/23/2011 7:05:22 PM PST by eyeamok
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To: Kaslin
Are Our Nuclear Secrets Safe In Obama's Hands?

Just the fact that the question needs to be asked, gives you the answer.

30 posted on 12/23/2011 7:17:25 PM PST by El Gato ("The second amendment is the reset button of the US constitution"-Doug McKay)
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To: SumProVita
Rhetorical question?

that's what I was going to post...

31 posted on 12/23/2011 7:22:35 PM PST by the invisib1e hand (omg - obama must go!)
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To: Kaslin; Alamo-Girl; ntnychik; Grampa Dave; Ernest_at_the_Beach
I have Notra Trulock's Code Name Kindred Spirit. Wen Ho Lee seemed to have had a disk which seemed to have our warhead data on it but not to worry he didn't share it with anybody but destroyed it. Really.

Bill Richardson is tasked by Bill Clinton to smear Notra Trulock.

A greasy smear by a greaseball.

The Clinton of the 1995 Loral-Hughes Schwartz-Armstrong data leak which the May 1997 DOD report said "damaged national security".

Gee but would Barry the Fairy really compromise the America he loves with her enemy the ChiComs.

Notra Trulock vs. Wen Ho Lee


32 posted on 12/23/2011 7:31:03 PM PST by PhilDragoo (Hussein: Islamo-Commie from Kenya)
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To: Kaslin

This is what happens when a communist traitor mole is elected POTUS.

What else would be expected?


33 posted on 12/23/2011 7:32:29 PM PST by Travis McGee (www.EnemiesForeignAndDomestic.com)
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To: PhilDragoo

Bbbut, won’t Ayatollah 0bama give us “peace, land and bread”.


34 posted on 12/23/2011 7:46:58 PM PST by sheik yerbouty ( Make America and the world a jihad free zone!)
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To: Kaslin
If you think about it, international influence-peddling is probably one of the most lucrative and easy-to-conceal crimes going.

Money flowing from an offshore source to a offshore bank is untraceable to onshow law enforcement. Can you just imagine all the creative ways that foreign aid money can be skimmed off the time and "laundered"?

35 posted on 12/23/2011 7:51:05 PM PST by The Duke
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To: Kaslin

I think they already have the secrets, they just want some experienced scientists and engineers to help on the applications.


36 posted on 12/23/2011 7:57:03 PM PST by JimSEA (The future ain't what it used to be.)
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To: Kaslin

brought this to the attention of my congress critter. they couldn’t care less

a few years ago, people would call this high treason. if THIS isn’t treason, I’d hate to imagine what it would take.

if you haven’t received that ‘oh crap’ feeling yet... image higher yield in a smaller package... flown into an American city by a newly acquired stealth drone


37 posted on 12/23/2011 8:26:37 PM PST by sten (fighting tyranny never goes out of style)
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To: Kaslin

Nothing is safe in Obama’s hands.


38 posted on 12/23/2011 8:30:29 PM PST by Gator113 (~Just livin' life, my way~.. Newt/Palin-West-2012."got a lot swirling around in my head.")
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To: Kaslin

China will help make sure that, “America’s chickenz will be comin’ home to roost!”


39 posted on 12/23/2011 8:40:39 PM PST by freedomson (Tagline comment removed by moderator)
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To: Kaslin
SlickWillie SOLD us out, the boy is giving it away...
40 posted on 12/23/2011 8:50:04 PM PST by Chode (American Hedonist - *DTOM* -ww- NO Pity for the LAZY)
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