Last March, the federal government set up a Web site to make public a vast archive of Iraqi documents captured during the war. The Bush administration did so under pressure from Congressional Republicans who said they hoped to “leverage the Internet” to find new evidence of the prewar dangers posed by Saddam Hussein.
But in recent weeks, the site has posted some documents that weapons experts say are a danger themselves: detailed accounts of Iraq’s secret nuclear research before the 1991 Persian Gulf war. The documents, the experts say, constitute a basic guide to building an atom bomb.
Last night, the government shut down the Web site after The New York Times asked about complaints from weapons experts and arms-control officials. A spokesman for the director of national intelligence said access to the site had been suspended “pending a review to ensure its content is appropriate for public viewing.”
Officials of the International Atomic Energy Agency, fearing that the information could help states like Iran develop nuclear arms, had privately protested last week to the American ambassador to the agency, according to European diplomats who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the issue’s sensitivity. One diplomat said the agency’s technical experts “were shocked” at the public disclosures.
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The Bush administration: making the world safer for you!
And isn't it just deliciously ironic that the New York Times - that evil, liberal, terrorist-appeasing, America-hating newspaper - was responsible for getting the information taken down?
Update: Wow. Check out the right-wing blogger spin on this. Can they be any more pathetic?? Their president authorizes the release of these documents on the web and now the NYT is either lying or to blame for all of this? How absolutely out of touch with freaking reality do you have to be to not realize the danger unleashed by these documents?
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