Oh boy, now I REALLY feel safer. . . .
State Department sees exodus of weapons experts
By Warren P. Strobel
Knight Ridder Newspapers
WASHINGTON - State Department officials appointed by President Bush have sidelined key career weapons experts and replaced them with less experienced political operatives who share the White House and Pentagon's distrust of international negotiations and treaties.
The reorganization of the department's arms control and international security bureaus was intended to help it better deal with 21st-century threats. Instead, it's thrown the agency into turmoil and produced an exodus of experts with decades of experience in nuclear arms, chemical weapons and related matters, according to 11 current and former officials and documents obtained by Knight Ridder.
The reorganization was conducted largely in secret by a panel of four political appointees. A career expert was allowed to join the group only after most decisions had been made. Its work was overseen by Frederick Fleitz, a CIA officer who was detailed to the State Department as senior adviser to former Undersecretary of State John Bolton, a critic of arms agreements and international organizations.
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4 comments:
I feel much safer. And the country is much safer too.
So as you, enjoy your new life in NYC -- remember, as you look out over the East River from Brooklyn to Manhattan, there is something that you will no longer see -- The Twin Towers. (Remember, it was attacked twice, only the 2nd time they were successful in destroying it.)
Stop your 9/10 thinking.
As my bumper sticker once said, 10 out of 10 terrorists prefered Kerry over Bush.
hmmmm, what I wanna know is how many terrorists are such close personal friends you can survey them? eh?
Riddle me this anon,
A few quick questions:
What is fearless leader doing about those 20 plus "tearrists" that escaped from Yemen the other day?
And if fearless leader was really all that concerned about finding OBL why doesn't he ask his guest at the SOTU, Prince Turki al-Faisal? If you don't know who he is, goggle him.
Aaaand under the Patriot Act (can't remember which sec.) they can look into international banking records - why doesn't fealess leader look into the ownership of the al Shamal Islamic Bank in Khartoum?
Now, if you dare, anon, click here and gaze at the looking glass
Hi John,
The computer ate my post and I need to start again. But, just thought I'd mention, before beginning, I also refer to the current ocupant of the WH as Fearless Leader. Great minds, eh?
Now then, this post ties in, tangentially, with an article I saw a couple days ago:
"Lab Officials Excited By New H Bomb Project"
http://www.truthout.org/docs_2006/020706K.shtml
Indeed, it is a great comfort to know that Fearless Leader's kissie kiss boys and girls are running the State Dept. rather than experienced professionals. Ditto NASA. Ditto the entire govt. It's nice to let Fearless Leader and his little friends play house, isn't it?
Gotta go. The stink of troll is beginning to get to me.
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