Republicans, NOT content with their 9-11 FAILURES and their LIES_TO_WAR intel manipulations, CONTINUE to PLAY POLITICS with America's intel & security

<< "In their zeal to promote the idea Saddam Hussein in fact did have (WMD), congressional proponents of the war ... have put up documents on the internet that could give terrorists and states hostile to the United States the very instructions they need to build nuclear, chemical or biological weapons," he said.

"IF DEMOCRATS HAD DONE THAT there would be MOBS CARRYING TORCHES IN THE STREETS TONIGHT. The Democrats WOULD BE ACCUSED OF TREASON, and there would be calls for resignation," [weapons expert] Cirincione told reporters Friday. >>


Note: Republicans CONSISTENTLY politicize and degrade "intel" gathering and America's national security in their callow, crass, and often lying efforts to gain and consolidate political power.

Among the three or four major 'tactical' sins of Republican POLITICIZATION of the National Security process: #1. FAILING to prevent (or even do ONE THING to prevent!) the 9-11 attacks; #2. FAILING to capture the ANTHRAX terrorist,; #3. pushing the case for WAR in IRAQ based on WMD lies; #4. and a miserable prosecution and administration of the occupations of Iraq and Afghanistan...

On top of those SPECIFIC national policy GROSS FAILURES, is the even LARGER Republican gross FAILING and POLITICIZATION of the nation's security: The Republican's abject SABOTAGE of international nuclear NON-PROLIFERATION accords, including the Bush administration's selling of FIVE BILLION DOLLARS of GE's latest nuclear procession technology to India, with the "UNDERSTANDING" that India WILL USE THAT TECHNOLOGY in its SEVENTEEN "top secret" military reactors, beyond the inspection of American or international experts!

GEORGE W. BUSH and the Republican Party ENCOURAGE NUCLEAR PROLIFERATION!

Tonight on the Chris Mathews ("slobber-ball") show, Mathews had a nuclear expert on who stated that BRAZIL is now reconstituting ITS nuclear weapons programs.

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Expert: GOP plays politics with intel
November 3, 2006
http://www.upi.com/SecurityTerrorism/view.php?StoryID=20061103-030156-6711r

WASHINGTON, Nov. 3 (UPI) -- Muted Republican reaction to news that nuclear weapons information was posted on a government Web site has been slammedby non-proliferation experts.

The New York Times reported Friday that officials from the International Atomic Energy Agency objected to U.S. government officials putting up about a dozen Iraqi documents, containing "charts, diagrams, equations and lengthy narratives about bomb building" from Iraq's pre-1991 nuclear program captured in the invasion of Iraq.

The Web site was established in March to make public Iraqi documents seized following the toppling of the Saddam Hussein regime. According to the Times, its birth was the result of Republican congressional pressure to help make the case that Iran had an active program to develop weapons of mass destruction -- a key rationale for the 2003 invasion, since debunked by a massive and fruitless search.

"This is a classic, textbook example of the dangers of politicizing national intelligence issues," said Joe Cirincione senior vice president for national security and international policy at the left-leaning Center for American Progress in Washington.

"In their zeal to promote the idea Saddam Hussein in fact did have (WMD), congressional proponents of the war ... have put up documents on the internet that could give terrorists and states hostile to the United States the very instructions they need to build nuclear, chemical or biological weapons," he said.

"If Democrats had done that there would be mobs carrying torches in the streets tonight. The Democrats would be accused of treason and there would be calls for resignation," Cirincione told reporters Friday.

The office of the U.S. director of national intelligence pulled the Web site down and is reviewing the documents for sensitive material.