"The Bush administration turned this into a program to develop a new nuclear warhead"
Some of you may remember Delmart Vreeland telling us that Putin and Saddam did 911. Let the poor and mis-educated eat Niger Yellowcake Forgery, Saddam WMD, Saddam 911. Magic Bullet? 911 Pentagon Small Magic Plane(c'mon, just a little one)? Litvinenko polonium? John Lennon shot by the Op 40 chief to clear the road for magic Space Weapons? Eighty people killed in the first 24 hours after the JFK assassination...by the mafia...LBJ...KGB...magic? If you buy cigarettes because you think you are rebelling against the people who make money when you buy cigarettes, because you think they warn you that cigarettes cause cancer in order to keep from making money off of you on cigarettes and chemo, then you're ready for magic. My president right or wrong, but lying? Not lying. Just wrong, dumb, but not lying. Magic. Darwin. Not lying. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/04/AR2007030401333_pf.html Analyst Robbed During Shooting Disclosure May Quell Putin Speculation By Eric Rich Washington Post Staff Writer Monday, March 5, 2007; B01 The noted expert in Russian intelligence who was shot outside his house in Prince George's County last week -- a crime that raised the possibility of international intrigue in the Washington suburbs -- also was robbed of his wallet and briefcase, law enforcement sources said yesterday. That property was taken from Paul Joyal supports the theory that he was shot during a robbery rather than in retaliation for public criticism of the Kremlin, according to two sources who spoke on condition of anonymity because the investigation is ongoing. Joyal, 53, was critically wounded in the driveway of his home in the Adelphi area Thursday evening, four days after he alleged in a television broadcast that the government of Russian President Vladimir Putin was involved in the fatal poisoning last fall of Alexander Litvinenko, a former KGB agent who was living in London. Speaking on TV's "Dateline NBC" on Feb. 25 about the poisoning, Joyal said, "A message has been communicated to anyone who wants to speak out against the Kremlin: 'If you do, no matter who you are, where you are, we will find you and we will silence you -- in the most horrible way possible.' " The timing of Joyal's shooting raised the possibility that he was targeted in an attack similar to the one he had publicly deplored. The disclosure the next day that the FBI was helping with the case seemed for many to reinforce that notion. In addition, robberies are rare in the suburban area where Joyal lives, and police spokesmen have declined to talk about possible motives or say whether property was taken from Joyal. But another law enforcement source, who also spoke on condition of anonymity, said yesterday that Joyal was driving a Chrysler 300, a vehicle sought by carjackers, suggesting that the assailants might have followed Joyal home rather than waited there to attack him. Police have described the suspects as two black males. Joyal, a longtime critic of the Putin regime, said on "Dateline" that Litvinenko's poisoning -- with polonium-210, a rare radioactive isotope -- was an act of "political retribution." Speculation that Putin and the Russian government were involved in Litvinenko's death in November has been widespread, in part because Litvinenko was looking into the killing of Russian journalist Anna Politkovskaya. Putin and Kremlin officials have denied involvement. For some, the possibility of a conspiracy in the shooting of Joyal was compounded by the recent death of another person featured in the TV segment. Daniel McGrory, 54, a reporter for the Times of London, died at his home Feb. 20. MSNBC reported that McGrory's cause of death was a heart attack. Joyal was shot hours after meeting with a former KGB general, Oleg Kalugin, near the Spy Museum in Washington. Kalugin, a family friend and a member of the museum's board, has said he was shocked when Joyal's wife called later that evening to tell him that Joyal had been shot. Joyal, who was struck in the groin, remained hospitalized Saturday. His condition could not be determined yesterday. http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/03/03/AR2007030301077_pf.html Nuclear Warhead Plan Draws Opposition Some Lawmakers Are Against New Weapon, While Others Seek Justification By Walter Pincus Washington Post Staff Writer Sunday, March 4, 2007; A05 The selection of a basic design for what could become a new generation of U.S. nuclear warheads has drawn immediate opposition from some key members of Congress. The National Nuclear Security Administration announced on Friday that it had selected a design by the California-based Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory for the Reliable Replacement Warhead (RRW). It would be the first of a new generation of secure and reliable nuclear warheads initially intended for the Navy's submarine-launched intercontinental ballistic missiles. Within the next 12 months, a team from Livermore and the Navy is to put together cost estimates and an engineering and production plan that would be presented to Congress next year for approval, according to acting NNSA Administrator Thomas P. D'Agostino. Rep. Peter J. Visclosky (D-Ind.), the new chairman of the House Appropriations subcommittee that controls the funds for the nuclear weapons complex, has sharply questioned why a new warhead is needed. Saying the NNSA announcement "puts the cart before the horse," he called on the Bush administration to present a "clear, coherent national policy" to justify the new warhead. Visclosky said he plans to hold oversight hearings and may seek to slow or eliminate the RRW if the administration does not present a strategy "that defines the future mission, the emerging threats, and the specific U.S. nuclear stockpile necessary to achieve the strategic goals." The same subcommittee, under the previous chairman, Rep. David L. Hobson (R-Ohio), helped eliminate the Bush administration's plan to develop a nuclear "bunker buster" weapon and, instead, initiated a program to upgrade the reliability of the current stockpile of Cold War weapons. The Bush administration turned this into a program to develop a new nuclear warhead. Sen. Dianne Feinstein (D-Calif.), a longtime opponent of new nuclear weapons, has declared that she is "100 percent opposed" to building the RRW. A member of the Senate Appropriations subcommittee that funds the nuclear complex, she said in a statement: "While I appreciate the fact that Lawrence Livermore was selected, this in no way answers my questions about the Reliable Replacement Warhead program." She questioned how other countries would view the U.S. effort to develop new nuclear weapons at the same time that the United States is pushing Iran, North Korea and other countries to drop nuclear weapons programs.
