How stupid is this...

seriously

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                                        'Embarrassing' miscue puts U.S. nuke list online.

 

     Washington(AP)-- The government's inadvertent and red-faced posting of a 266-page list of U.S. nuclear sites provided a one step guide for anyone wanting details about such sensitive informantion. Administration officials said Wednesday the document contained no classified material about nuclear weapons. They contended the locations and other details were available from public sources.

     The Energy Secretary said a mistake led to the online posting. "A little embarrassing," he acknowledged. The document, stamped, "highly confidential safeguards senasitive" made it onto the Government Printing Office's Web site...and why that happened was not immediately clear. A newsletter that focuses on government secrecy quickly picked up on it. The printing office removed the document when informed about "The potential sensitive nature" of the list, the agency said. By then it was too late.

     The information, compiled for international nuclear inspectors, is a "compilation of hundreds of civilian nuclear sites along with maps and details" of the facilities. The material includes sites for uranium storage...nuclear fuel fabrication plants and nuclear research facilities.

     I'm not going to put the rest of the article here as it only repeats most of what's already been said. There is one thing though I'd like to point out......

     One of the sites...the Y-12 Oak Ridge Complex in Tennessee is a storage facility for "highly enriched, as in weapons grade, uranium. It holds large quantities of said uranium.

     When questioned by a senator at a Senate Armed Services subcommittee hearing the head of the National Nuclear Security Administration said "We don't want to make this easier for people to get this kind of information"...DUH!..."Unfortunately something like this makes it easier."

     The director of the Federation of American Scientists' government secrecy project which distributed the document, said he was perplexed about all the attention surrounding the disclosure. Perplexed?? He said..."Some people are painting this as a road map for terrorists, which it is not". Maps and details about the facilities sounds like a pretty good road map to me.

     Not to worry folks... our sublime and security conscious high muck-a-mucks in Washington are doing just what they normally do. Screwing things up royally. There are times when I wonder what the hell is going on over there. Seriously!! 

      

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Reply #1 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Hey mate...the general location of the stuff was always known. The inadvertant leak only pinpointed the location a bit more, like in which building. The general location though, was never a secret.

Bonehead trusted with stuff beyond his/her understanding.  Happens all the time. Just because they have a map, doesn't mean easy penetration of those sites is possible.

And don't trust anyone to do anything correctly. Murphy's Law, you know. Applies to people and Governments.

Take Doc's advice: "Lower your pants and slide on the ice." ~ Dr. Sydney Friedman (M.A.S.H.).

Reply #2 from WinCustomize Forums Top

A few years back they were moving a missle to a location near where I live. It had to be kept secret and done in the middle of the night. They needed to use both lanes of most roads because it was so big. Weeeeeelllllll, the local newspaper printed a column warning people not to plan on travelling on this one road because the government was secretly moving a missle. It gave the approximate time and location of where the missle was going.

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Reply #3 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Quoting Night, reply 2
A few years back they were moving a missle to a location near where I live. It had to be kept secret and done in the middle of the night. They needed to use both lanes of most roads because it was so big. Weeeeeelllllll, the local newspaper printed a column warning people not to plan on travelling on this one road because the government was secretly moving a missle. It gave the approximate time and location of where the missle was going.
End of Night's quote

My point exactly

Reply #4 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Kind of stupid, isn't it.

Reply #5 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Had it had the sass, Pravda could have published those locations... particularly those in Alaska

Well if Sarah Palin can see Russia from her bedroom window.... Russia can obiously see Alaska... and they have better binoculars than she does.

:-"

Reply #6 from WinCustomize Forums Top

GREENSBORO — The mother of a woman who drowned in a rain-swollen McLeansville creek during Wednesday night’s storms believes her daughter might have been trying to retrieve her moped.

Roseanne Marie Minton Tippett, 50, of 7695 N.C. 61 North in Browns Summit drowned about 7 p.m. Wednesday after jumping into the creek near Northeast Middle School in the 6700 block of McLeansville Road, authorities said.
 

The incident began when a Highway Patrol trooper blocked traffic because water was covering the road, according to the Guilford County Sheriff’s Office.

Investigators report that Tippett, who was riding a moped, rode past the trooper, lost control and went into the creek.
The trooper, who has not been identified, retrieved a rope from his vehicle and pulled Tippett to safety.

 While interviewing her, the trooper suspected Tippett had been drinking alcohol. When he went to his vehicle to retrieve something, Tippett jumped back into the creek.

The trooper tried to save the woman a second time, but she was swept under the fast-moving floodwaters, the sheriff’s office said. The woman’s body was recovered about 8:30 p.m. about 300 yards downstream.

Tippett’s mother, Marie Minton, said Thursday she believes her daughter jumped into the creek because she thought she could retrieve her moped.

Reply #7 from WinCustomize Forums Top

More like.....how typical is this! ;)

Reply #8 from WinCustomize Forums Top

Excuse me, where are the nuclear wessels?