BUSHCO - Spooked by Edmonds - Seeks to Legalize the Nuke Black Market

Friday, January 25, 2008
The Big Fix: Bushists Seek to Legalize the Nuke Black Market
Antifascist Calling...


A new piece by Joshua Frank over at Dissident Voice reveals that the Bush administration, in the wake of Sibel Edmonds' blockbuster revelations January 6 to The Sunday Times, is seeking to legalize the secretive nuclear trade with Turkey, a key player in Pakistani scientist A.Q. Khan's nuclear black market proliferation network.

In the process, leading neocons and other allies of the regime would be exonerated for their role in selling nuclear secrets for profit to any and all commers.

In one fell-swoop, according to Frank:

Why Bush Wants to Legalize the Nuke Trade with Turkey
Exonerating Neocon Criminals

by Joshua Frank / January 25th, 2008

In likely reaction to the London Times report, the Bush Administration quietly announced on January 22 that the president would like Congress to approve the sale of nuclear secrets to Turkey. As with most stories of this magnitude, the U.S. media has put on blinders, opting to not report either Edmonds’ story or Bush’s recent announcement.

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It appears the White House has been spooked by Edmonds and hopes to absolve the U.S. officials allegedly involved in the illegal sale of nuclear technology to private Turkish “entities”. One of those officials is likely Marc Grossman, the former ambassador to Turkey during the Clinton Administration who also served in the State Department from 2001-2005. Grossman has been named by Edmonds who claims he was directly involved in the nuclear smuggling ring that she says has allowed the intelligence agencies of Pakistan, Israel and Turkey to operate in the U.S. with impunity. Totally complicit in the nuke trade, the U.S. government, according to Edmonds, has known of the expansive criminal activities of these foreign nations’ presence in the States, which has included all sorts of illegal activities like drug trafficking, espionage and money laundering.

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Frank pointedly asks:

What "private entities" the press release refers to is not clear, but it could well include the American Turkish Council, the "entity" revealed in the Times' article. The Bushites seem to be covering their own exposed backsides, for the timing of Bush's call to sell nuke secrets to Turkey is certainly suspicious, if not overtly conspicuous. ... Edmonds says "several arms of the government were shielding what was going on" which included an entire national security apparatus associated with the neoconservaties who have profited by representing Turkish interests in Washington.

Frank rhetorically inquires:

Is the Bush Administration seeking to exonerate these "officials" with its plea to allow Turkey to obtain U.S. nuclear secrets?

more at:
http://www.dissidentvoice.org/2008/01/why-bush-wants-to-legalize-the-nuke-trade-with-turkey/

and:
http://cannonfire.blogspot.com/2008/01/big-fix-bushists-seek-to-legalize-nuke.html

why not treason after the fact?

I mean, what the hell? Legitimize the sale of black market nukes???? Isn't this worse than Iran-Contra?

We've gone through the looking glass Alice.
BHN

to walk at least one foot above the ground. I'm going to expect squirrels to jounce rotted limbs with the well-thought out intention of snapping them and hitting you over the head. Butterflies will revert to caterpillar form. Charlie Brown will kick the football out of the field. Rats will chase cats. Cats will chase dogs. Dogs will learn to fly.

This is just fucking crazy.

Our supposed "saviors," the democrats (cough-cough)
are complicit.
We are so fucked.
Do notice how none of them are going anywhere near the
Sibel Edmunds case... not a fucking peep.
BHN

That's why I posted a thread a few days back to show an article which criticized Chavez. It claimed that he was aiding or colluding with the drug cartel because he wasn't doing anything to stop it. I pointed out that the same test should be applied to our government.

Here's the thread, which no one responded to:

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=show_topic&forum=389&topic_id=2726752

Here's a quote:

'Colluding'

Mr Walters said Mr Chavez had failed to root out corrupt officials or to deny Venezuelan ports and airfields to smugglers.

Such failure, he said, came from more than neglect.

"It goes beyond 'I can't do it' to 'I won't do it'. And 'I won't do it' means that 'I am colluding'," Mr Walters said.

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So our government has been colluding with black market nukes since the Clinton years. How does that make everybody feel about voting for Hillary Clinton? We don't want this kind of schizophrenic government anymore. Why doesn't anybody seem to understand that?

and try to wake up again.

:-)

Please, someone, does this not relate to the Pollard case?

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=344x144#159

in favor of keeping the powder dry. Pelosi, how is your conscience these days?

Forgive them, though you know not what they've done.

:kick:

"And this applies to sale of nuke secrets to Turkey too"

Apparently there is no end to republicon traitory...