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Banned
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It looks like they're spinning the same hysteria message that they used to do the "Iraq Op", with the same "playas"!
Background: There was a "reorgantization" at the State Dept. that eliminated any dissent. It was led by:
Robert Joseph: http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/47252.htm
Robert Joseph's role in the Iraq, pre-invasion "spin":
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/ac2/wp...nguage=printer
Iraq Flap Shakes Rice's Image
Controversy Stirs Questions of Reports Unread, Statements Contradicted
By Dana Milbank and Mike Allen
Washington Post Staff Writers
Sunday, July 27, 2003; Page A01
....Three days later, then-White House press secretary Ari Fleischer said Rice told him she was not referring to the State of the Union address, as she had indicated, but to Bush's October speech. That explanation, however, had a flaw: The sentence was removed from the October speech, not cleared.
In addition, testimony by a CIA official before the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence two days after Fleischer's clarification was consistent with the first account Rice had given. The CIA official, Alan Foley, said he told a member of Rice's staff, <b>Robert Joseph,</b> that the CIA objected to mentioning a specific African country -- Niger -- and a specific amount of uranium in Bush's State of the Union address. Foley testified that he told <b>Joseph</b> of the CIA's problems with the British report and that <b>Joseph</b> proposed changing the claim to refer generally to uranium in Africa.
White House communications director Dan Bartlett last Monday called that a "conspiracy theory" and said Joseph did not recall being told of any concerns.
Staff writer Walter Pincus contributed to this report.
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Report on the Robert Joseph directed reorganization:
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http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn...022001198.html
Administration Critics Chafe at State Dept. Shuffle
Merger Has Brought Appointees Into Conflict With Longtime Workers, Who Say They Are Sidelined
By Glenn Kessler
Washington Post Staff Writer
Tuesday, February 21, 2006; Page A04
A State Department reorganization of analysts involved in preventing the spread of deadly weapons has spawned internal turmoil, with more than half a dozen career employees alleging in interviews that political appointees sought to punish long-term employees whose views they considered suspect.....
.......Robert Joseph, the undersecretary of state for arms control, who oversaw the reorganization, and Henrietta H. Fore, the undersecretary for management, said in interviews that political motives were not a factor, adding that any change is going to cause distress. Fore said she has listened to employee concerns, reviewed the implementation and determined that "all steps were taken according to the law."
"None of these allegations stand up," Joseph said. "You have got a small group of individuals who are resisting the changes. I am not surprised by that. Change is difficult, but change is absolutely necessary."
The employees who say that they have been targeted once had a back channel to then-Secretary of State Colin L. Powell and his deputy, Richard L. Armitage, who they said would on occasion ask them to bypass their superior, John R. Bolton, now the ambassador to the United Nations. Bolton, with backing from allies in the Pentagon and the vice president's office, frequently battled the rest of the State Department on policy issues.
But Joseph, who worked for Rice at the White House, is an ideological soul mate of Bolton's and retained much of Bolton's staff -- and now officials say the policy disputes that characterized Powell's State Department have largely faded under Rice's tenure. The back channel that these employees used to alert senior management to their problems with Bolton no longer exists, the career officials said........
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There was some doubt that Stephen Rademaker, backed by John Bolton, would get the promotion:
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http://www.thewashingtonnote.com/archives/2005_04.php
April 07, 2005
Chris Nelson: Carl Ford Rep "Impeccable" -- Hagel Studying Bolton Questions -- May be Reconsidering His Position
....Finally, it may be that Bolton's plan to turn over the consolidated non-proliferation Assist. Secretary slot to protege Steve Rademaker may be undone by his successor, and presumed ally, former NSC non-proliferation boss Bob Joseph. Word is that Undersecretary-nominee Joseph wants to bring over his guy for A/S, NSC staffer Will Tobey.
For those trying to follow the reorganization, both Powell and Rice approved combining the non-proliferation and arms control bureaus, so that, at least, is not seen as "payback" by Bolton for all those softies he constantly battled........
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Evidently, Stephen Rademaker "won" the competition:
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http://www.state.gov/r/pa/ei/biog/12813.htm
BIOGRAPHY
Stephen G. Rademaker
Acting Assistant Secretary, Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation
Term of Appointment: 09/13/2005 to present
Stephen G. Rademaker currently heads the newly-created Bureau of International Security and Nonproliferation of the Department of State. This Bureau was created on September 13, 2005, upon the merger of the Bureau of Arms Control and the Bureau of Nonproliferation. Mr. Rademaker was sworn in on August 12, 2002, as Assistant Secretary of State for Arms Control, and in February 2005 he was also named as head of the Bureau of Nonproliferation pending merger of the two Bureaus.....
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Here is the new Bush, pre-Iran attack "spin Op", in response to Sy Hersh's New York Magazine article, led by... <b>Stephen Rademaker !</b> Same Shit...Different Day...different, scapegoated, oil rich country:
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http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?p...top_world_news
April 12 (Bloomberg) -- Iran, which is defying United Nations Security Council demands to cease its nuclear program, <b>may be capable of making a nuclear bomb within 16 days</b> if it goes ahead with plans to install thousands of centrifuges at its Natanz plant, a U.S. State Department official said.
``Natanz was constructed to house 50,000 centrifuges,'' <b>Stephen Rademaker, U.S. Assistant Secretary of State for International Security and Nonproliferation, told reporters today in Moscow.</b> ``Using those 50,000 centrifuges they could produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon in 16 days.''....
...... ``It was a deeply disappointing announcement,'' Rademaker said of Ahmadinejad's statement.
Weapons-Grade Uranium
<b>Rademaker said</b> the technology to enrich uranium to a low level could also be used to make weapons-grade uranium, saying that it would take a little over 13 years to produce enough highly enriched uranium for a nuclear weapon with the 164 centrifuges currently in use. The process involves placing uranium hexafluoride gas in a series of rotating drums or cylinders known as centrifuges that run at high speeds to extract weapons grade uranium.
Iran has informed the Vienna-based International Atomic Energy Agency that it plans to construct 3,000 centrifuges at Natanz next year, Rademaker said.
``We calculate that a 3,000-machine cascade could produce enough uranium to build a nuclear weapon within 271 days,'' he said.
While the U.S. has concerns over Iran's nuclear program, Rademaker said ``there certainly has been no decision on the part of my government'' to use force if Iran refuses to obey the UN Security Council demand that it shuts down its nuclear program.
Rademaker is in Moscow for a meeting of his counterparts from the Group of Eight wealthy industrialized countries. Russia chairs the G-8 this year.
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I'm disgusted with this POTUS and his "one note" NEOCON band...and I wasn't fooled the last time..... |