Nov 03 2006
IAEA Went To Times, Not US Goverment
It appears the meddling of the UN’s IAEA in our national elections is now confirmed. I don’t have a link but I did get a copy of a statement by Rep Peter Hoekstra. The full statement is below the fold, but the relevant part is:
“That said, it is also important to emphasize that the IAEA, contrary to its assertions, never raised any concerns about this material with the United States Government before going to the press. Similarly, the DNI’s office has informed me that no agency of the U.S. Government had raised any issues about the potential or actual release of these documents before yesterday. If there were such problems, they would have been better addressed through the appropriate channels rather than the press.
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“Second, my staff’s preliminary review of the documents in question suggests that at least some of them may be internal IAEA documents. There is a serious question of why and how the Iraqi [AJStrata: government obtained] these documents in the first place. We need to explore that carefully – I certainly hope there will be no evidence that the IAEA had been penetrated by Saddam’s regime.
So the IAEA went to the NY Times just prior to our national election with this ‘story’ and did not inform our government? This is a government run site. It is clear the IAEA coordinated a hit piece for this election cycle. I believe there are laws against this kind of foreign intervention, and the NY Times should be held accountable for their participation. Since when did the UN think they could select our leaders? Here is the full statement:
For Immediate Release
Nov. 3, 2006
Contact: Dave Yonkman
(202) 225-4401
Hoekstra Statement on DOCEX
“Yesterday’s article by the New York Times highlights a number of important issues with respect to Iraq’s WMD programs, as well as the importance of the documents that have been recovered in Iraq,” said U.S. Rep. Pete Hoekstra (R-MI), Chairman of the House Intelligence Committee. “I am pleased that the document release program continues to stimulate public discussion of these issues.
“With respect to the possibility that documents may have been released that should not have been released, I have always been clear that the Director of National Intelligence should take whatever steps necessary to withhold sensitive documents. In fact, as of today the DNI had withheld 59 percent of the documents that it had reviewed, and has become more risk-averse over time. If the DNI believes that the documents that were released were in the safe 40 percent, imagine what the 60 percent being withheld must contain.
“That said, it is also important to emphasize that the IAEA, contrary to its assertions, never raised any concerns about this material with the United States Government before going to the press. Similarly, the DNI’s office has informed me that no agency of the U.S. Government had raised any issues about the potential or actual release of these documents before yesterday. If there were such problems, they would have been better addressed through the appropriate channels rather than the press.
“These documents also raise several additional issues of interest. First, it is extraordinary that the New York Times now acknowledges that the captured documents demonstrate that ‘[Saddam] Hussein’s scientists were on the verge of building an atom bomb, as little as a year away.’ This only reinforces the value of these documents in understanding the threat posed by Saddam Hussein’s regime. Only 1 percent of the estimated 120 million pages of captured documents have been reviewed, and we must continue working to promptly understand these materials. If there is concern about Saddam’s nuclear program, there should be similar concern about potential connections between Saddam and al-Qaeda suggested in the documents.
“Second, my staff’s preliminary review of the documents in question suggests that at least some of them may be internal IAEA documents. There is a serious question of why and how the Iraqi these documents in the first place. We need to explore that carefully – I certainly hope there will be no evidence that the IAEA had been penetrated by Saddam’s regime.
“Finally, it is disappointing but not surprising that the New York Times would continue to participate in such blatant and transparent political ploys, including what I believe are improper efforts by the IAEA to interfere with U.S. domestic affairs. The sad reality is that the New York Times has done far more damage to U.S. national security by the disclosure of vital, classified, intelligence programs than is likely to be caused by the inadvertent disclosure of decades-old information that had already been in the hands of Saddam’s regime.”
I might be mistaken, but you’ll recall that two years ago, the NYT unloaded the “missing explosives” story right before the election. IAEA is mentioned in the abstract, and as I remember it they might have been the original source of the story. It was keyed to a warning from the Iraqi interim government to IAEA and the United States.
In other words, this ain’t the first time. IAEA no like Bush.
UN payback for the corruption probe now underway being lead by an American?
That’s an amazing statement. Do you think all the mainstream newspapers will put it in bold type on the front page, where it rightfully belongs?
This is off the subject but does anyone else get the significance of the ACORN people being arrested for voter registration fraud? I have had personal experience with some ACORN people and affiliated organizations. I can attest that it is one of the many National dissident groups organized by “radical militant extremists from the 60’s Civil Rights and Peace Movements” (FBI) who have worked since the 1980’s to organize affiliated local grass roots groups which they hope to “unite and empower them to overthrow the government.” Many of these groups were organizd with grants from the New World Foundation, organized about 1985 and financed by Ted Turner, et al. . Hillary Clinton served as President and on the New World Foundation’s Board of Directors from it’s inception in 1985 until Bill got the Presidential Nomination in 1992. (Wlm. F. Buckley and editor of the Naples Fla. Daily News.) If you don’t think Hillary is the leader of these radical left wing groups you have got to be naive.
These radical groups masquerade under the guise of Environmentalism, Civil rights etc.,. They all work together. They coordinate their “actions” (code word for demonstrations, marches, etc.) so that if one organization is planning somehting big, the other organizations plan, conventions. workshops, and other meetings in the same area at the same time and urge the local grass roots activists, who unwittingly attend, thinking they are making connections that will help their individual local causes, to join in and support the other’s “actions” because they in turn will be there if they need support. This is how they turn out so many warm bodies for the count.
If ACORN is out registering people who are dead, don’t exist, or are ineligible to vote, you better believe all the other groups are doing it too. They coordinate their Actions and all work together on common projects. It appears their latest is to load the voter registration roles with enough non existant voters to steal the election. There are enough of these national organizations , like ACORN, to cover the entire country. Who is going to double check all the voter registration roles in the entire country? If someone doesn’t do it, we may never see another bona fide honest election in this country.
Marilyn
Hmm, found this from 2003 …
It’s the usual suspects again. The whole Fenton gang.
Whatever happened to “if you want to vote get your fanny up to the registrers office” It is ridiculous to get people to apply to vote a few days before an election. It has to make a mess of everything and nothing can be checked. I’m sure some who are not eligible get to vote illegally. These “I don’t know where I’m supposed to vote so I’ll vote where I want to..maybe more than once” on ballots that have to be verified. Who thought up this fiasco?
The IAEA is just as corrupt and useless as the rest of the UN. I wish we could get rid of these people.
You know, it is pretty amazing that all these countries who think we are the danger and not the terrorists will come to us when they are need us to save them. As I have said before, history repeats itself, back in the 1930’s these countries had to greatest contempt for us. They thought we were backward and naive. Well, we saved their butts and gave them a lot of money to rebuild their economies which they never paid back. Well guess what, here we are back to that point again only this time we aren’t backward and naive but the greatest danger to the free world. I, for one, want the UN out of this country and the US out of the UN. They have a lot of nerve thinking they can meddle in our politics and even in 2004 thought they could oversee our elections. Has anybody forgotten that? We have enough trouble with the dems trying to subvert the elections.
This is off subject, just wanted to get your attention. Tonight on ABC 15 there is a story about a reporter in Phoenix who was blown up by a car bomb by organized crime over 30 years ago. They now have evidence that organized crime is thriving in Maricopa County, Arizona. You can go to ABC15.com and listen to video. Organized crime has been stealing land in Maricopa all these years. This corruption is finally out and many are involved. It is believed that there is also evidence connecting Harry Reid and his land fraud deals to this group.
I would like your comments after you have viewed the program. AJ, maybe you could add a new post on the matter.
Barbara,
And we saved Europe in the Cold War while they saved their money and protested.
I, for one, would like to see the UN replaced by a nonbinding organization of democracies.
Macker
Me, too.
The documents the Times authenticated: Illustrated…
Ever wondered what was in the cache of captured Iraqi documents (besides the plans that indicate Saddam was months away from having an atomic device)?…
United States, Australia, Great Britian, Israel, Japan, Denmark, Poland…….the United Allied Nations…….
Applications for membership subject to approval. Deadline TOMORROW.
Strata…”laws against foreign intervention,” LOL. It’s too
obvious to say, but 70% of the voters have duly noted
the pitfalls of such.
Ken
I, for one, am sick of hearing about your bogus polls.
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/04/iraq/main2153180.shtml
Barb, here’s something to make you even queasier.
Update: Of 5000 voters registered by ACORN only 40 could be verified as legitimate. In some areas of some states, there are more registered voters than there are adults. Looks like they have already started working on insuring that Hillary will be elected in 08. It’s time the Justice dept cleaned this mess up. Or is it too late already?
Marilyn
AJ–
I have the links to the IAEA statement my Hoekstra and the link to the NYT story on my site.
http://legendofpineridge.blogspot.com/2006/11/hoekstra-hopes-international-atomic.html
Here is the article from the NYT
http://www.nytimes.com/2006/11/03/world/middleeast/03cnd-documents.html?_r=1&ref=technology&oref=slogin
Here is Hoekstra’s statement (note the date is mistakenly 2005)
http://intelligence.house.gov/Media/PDFS/Release110306.pdf
Hoekstra says the documents posted may include IAEA documents that Iraq got from the IAEA.
Hoekstra says this might mean they were penetrated by Saddam’s spies.
That could be the real reason why the IAEA doesn’t want these documents posted: they show that the IAEA was leaking to Saddam.
I can’t judge if the technical information is anything really secret.
Sorry about the garbled first line–I have the links on my site to the NYT story and the Hoekstra rebuttal. See above.
Yawn!