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Energy Dept vacates 1950s decision revoking security clearance for ‘father of the atomic bomb’ J. Robert Oppenheimer
The Hill ^ | 12/16/22 3:30 PM ET | BY RACHEL FRAZIN

Posted on 12/17/2022 11:35:06 PM PST by RandFan

The Biden administration is vacating a decades-old decision to revoke the security clearance of World War II-era scientist J. Robert Oppenheimer, who is known today as the “father of the atomic bomb.”

In a written statement first shared with The Hill, Energy Secretary Jennifer Granholm said the 1954 decision barring Oppenheimer’s clearance went through a “flawed process” and noted that there was evidence of bias.

“In 1954, the Atomic Energy Commission revoked Dr. Oppenheimer’s security clearance through a flawed process that violated the Commission’s own regulations. As time has passed, more evidence has come to light of the bias and unfairness of the process that Dr. Oppenheimer was subjected to while the evidence of his loyalty and love of country have only been further affirmed,” Granholm said.

“I am pleased to announce the Department of Energy has vacated the Atomic Energy Commission’s 1954 decision In the Matter of J. Robert Oppenheimer,” she added.

Oppenheimer directed the Manhattan Project’s Los Alamos National Laboratory when the atomic bomb was developed during World War II.

His security clearance was later revoked by the Atomic Energy Commission, a federal agency that predated the Energy Department, with commissioners arguing he was a “security risk” amid allegations that he was disloyal to the U.S.

Oppenheimer’s past connections with communism and communists also played a role. His hearing before the commission in 1954 occurred during the Red Scare, a time where U.S. politics was dominated by anti-communist sentiment.

(Excerpt) Read more at thehill.com ...


TOPICS: Government; Miscellaneous; News/Current Events
KEYWORDS: 1950s; 1954; 1970s; atomicbomb; churchcommittee; communism; communistapologists; communists; frankchurch; haroldurey; historicrevisionism; jennifergranholm; losalamos; mccarthywasright; oppenheimer; policefiles; redscare; revisionism; securityclearance; treason; urey; uslabs; uswmds
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To: RandFan

there must be something coming down the pike at them that they think is dependent upon that precedent


41 posted on 12/18/2022 6:07:55 AM PST by mo ("If you understand, no explanation is needed; if you don't understand, no explanation is possible)
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To: Adder

As the most brilliant Democrat said “What difference does it make”


42 posted on 12/18/2022 6:12:22 AM PST by satan (The tree of liberty is dying in the drought.)
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To: irishjuggler

They plan on re-instating his voting rights now too.


43 posted on 12/18/2022 6:14:22 AM PST by pas
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To: 21twelve

Thanks for reminding me about how stupid the voters are in the Pugetopolis area.

County Margin Votes Percent of votes in% In
King Murray +50 888,999 100%
Pierce Murray +6 331,495 100%
Snohomish Murray +15 319,769 100%
Spokane Smiley +9 221,088 100%
Clark Murray +2 205,318 100%
Thurston Murray +16 125,759 100%
Kitsap Murray +15 123,073 100%
Whatcom Murray +19 110,988 100%
Benton Smiley +33 75,621 100%
Yakima Smiley +28 62,729 100%
Skagit Murray +3 56,710 100%
Cowlitz Smiley +22 44,885 100%
Island Murray +10 42,955 100%
Clallam Murray +3 40,185 100%
Lewis Smiley +37 35,917 100%
Chelan Smiley +16 34,206 100%
Mason Smiley +6 29,389 100%
Grays Harbor Smiley +7 29,318 100%
Grant Smiley +46 26,876 100%
Walla Walla Smiley +17 24,231 100%
Stevens Smiley +47 22,876 100%
Franklin Smiley +37 22,196 100%
Jefferson Murray +42 21,155 100%
Kittitas Smiley +20 20,764 100%
Okanogan Smiley +20 16,570 100%
Douglas Smiley +34 16,081 100%
Whitman Smiley +0.15 15,672 100%
Pacific Smiley +3 11,908 100%
Klickitat Smiley +16 11,437 100%
San Juan Murray +46 11,309 100%
Asotin Smiley +29 9,005 100%
Pend Oreille Smiley +40 6,771 100%
Skamania Smiley +16 6,219 100%
Lincoln Smiley +54 6,139 100%
Adams Smiley +53 4,119 100%
Ferry Smiley +38 3,408 100%
Wahkiakum Smiley +21 2,558 100%
Columbia Smiley +45 2,167 100%
Garfield Smiley +52 1,284 100%

As you can see, most of the people who live outside of the 3 county Pugetopolis voted for Tiffany Smiley. Murray won 12 of the 39 counties in Washington State. There must be a way to equalize the dependent class in big city/state cesspools that ruin many coastal states where the citizens have been subjugated into the communist realms those urban areas have become.


44 posted on 12/18/2022 6:44:28 AM PST by bigfootbob (Arm Up and Carry On!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper

History must be rewritten because the International Communists were the “Good Guys.”


45 posted on 12/18/2022 7:15:44 AM PST by KC Burke
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To: RandFan

Sniffer is quick.


46 posted on 12/18/2022 8:32:52 AM PST by depressed in 06
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To: RandFan

The left certainly has a long memory.

Who’s next on their list? Sacco and Vanzetti?


47 posted on 12/18/2022 10:43:16 AM PST by Yardstick
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To: RandFan

Poor revision history there Hill, but I guess we can expect this poor propaganda


48 posted on 12/18/2022 10:51:10 AM PST by markman46 (engage brain before using keyboard!!!)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper
What you said bears repeating...

I would only add the names of FDR's cabinet, a cabal of fellow travelers...
Spent many an hour, before & during WWII, listening to both my grandfathers endlessly bitching about the communists and communist supporters surrounding FDR...
Particularly when FDR imposed direct theft of American wages in the form of a "Temporary Deduction of Taxes From Paychecks"... Yikes! The camel's nose, neck, head, and chest were in the tent...

"Oppenheimer’s brother was an identified CPUSA member as I recall. So we’re others surrounding him over the years.

Should be a lot of additional information in books by top government intelligence personnel including Herbert Romerstein (and co-authors in some of his books), historians including John Haynes, Harvey Khlers, their once Soviet citizen historians co-authors and probably some people from the British MI6, or even the Israeli Mossad.

The other big US security risk in the nuclear weapons/programs was Harold Urey, who may have protected Soviet spies, as well as US Communists who worked in th e nuclear programs. This has still not been thoroughly investigated, believe me!

Remember, the Democrats and their leftist allies in Congress and in State/Local Governments ordered police intelligence files destroyed in the 1970s in alliance with hardcore leftist Sen. Frank Church (D- Id?), leader of the infamous Church Committee which did a tremendous amount of deliberate damage to out internal security capabilities.

This also included Military Intelligence files, a major source of information on communists and their operations in the US and abroad.

Just ask yourself who gained the most from the destruction of these specific types of files, and why did the Democrats take the political leader in doing it. If you look at the background of some of them, Rep. Abzug (D-NY and reportedly an underground member of the CPUSA), Rep. John Conyers Jr., (D-Mich, also a top CPUSA affiliate, along with Rep. George Crockett Jr, D-Mich), Sen. Alan Cranston (D-CA, Office of War Information), and others, you will begin to understand What has been going on since the 1930s and has been covered up since then.



49 posted on 12/18/2022 11:21:17 AM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: RandFan
during the Red Scare,

McCarthy was right. Government and other institutions were and are shot though with communist infiltrators.

a time where U.S. politics was dominated by anti-communist sentiment.

As opposed to today, when the democRAT Party is openly communist.

50 posted on 12/18/2022 11:23:54 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: ScaniaBoy
he felt he had the right to divulge the physics of the bomb to the world. Is that a person who should have a security clearance?

NO!!!!!!

51 posted on 12/18/2022 11:24:46 AM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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To: NorthMountain
NO!!!!!!

Mine was a rhetorical question. I agree with you fully!

52 posted on 12/18/2022 12:36:28 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: null and void; aragorn; EnigmaticAnomaly; kalee; Kale; AZ .44 MAG; Baynative; bgill; bitt; ...

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53 posted on 12/18/2022 12:44:15 PM PST by bitt (<img src=' 'width=50%>)
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To: ScaniaBoy

It seems our ‘intelligence’ money is being wasted on people who don’t protect us from commies, from North Korea, from Iran, Cuba or from illegals... Or even the drug addicted whore monger sons of ‘elites’ working to sell out the country.

But they’re very concerned about ‘conservative speech’... and the need to but their boots on the faces of conservative Americans.

How charming.


54 posted on 12/18/2022 12:45:00 PM PST by GOPJ (Illegals coming across with Ebola? https://www.youtube.com/watch?time_continue=45&v=LPjzfGChGlE) )
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To: Yardstick
Who’s next on their list? Sacco and Vanzetti?

A very god suggestion or guess.

The "litterati" who later research has shown in so many cases were fellow travelers or even witting agents for the Soviets were enticed and run by Will Müntzenberg - a Leninist and later Stalinist agent. One of his first successes was the Sacco and Vanzetti case.

If you have not read "Double Lives: Stalin, Willi Münzenberg and the Seduction of the Intellectuals" by Stephen Koch I highly recommend it.

55 posted on 12/18/2022 12:45:34 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: GOPJ

I assume you are as sarcastic as I was above, and I fully agree!

Check out the book I suggested as an excellent read in post #55. Apart from revealing the stupidity, venality, and loathing of our free societies by some of the most celebrated “intellectuals” of the last century, the author also shows how not only “the intellectuals” but also our intelligence services were completely fooled by the Soviets. The history of the inter-war years and the run-up to WW II ought to be rewritten.


56 posted on 12/18/2022 12:54:55 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: MadMax, the Grinning Reaper; NorthMountain; RandFan
For a better picture of the extent to which the U.S. government was, and continues to be, heavily & thoroughly infiltrated by communist spies, consider this:

Communist Infiltration of the U.S. Government as Detected by Venona

57 posted on 12/18/2022 1:14:39 PM PST by SuperLuminal (Where is the next Sam Adams when we so desperatly need him)
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To: Rockingham

Thanks for relating your memory of that inteview. I do not remember reading about that in the Mitrokhin files, but if it was as you say edited out of the book I wouldn’t. I wonder if one can find the interview somwhere. I guess it was on tele, or did you read it in a magazine?


58 posted on 12/18/2022 1:24:00 PM PST by ScaniaBoy (Part of the Right Wing Research & Attack Machine)
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To: ScaniaBoy

It was in an article. If I come across it again, I will email you a copy.


59 posted on 12/18/2022 1:37:27 PM PST by Rockingham
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To: SuperLuminal

Ahhh ... Venona ...

That’s how we KNOW that McCarthy was right.


60 posted on 12/18/2022 1:39:26 PM PST by NorthMountain (... the right of the peopIe to keep and bear arms shall not be infringed)
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