http://www.americanthinker.com/blog/2008/09/iran_5060_tons_of_enriched_ura.html
"September 12, 2008
Iran: 50-60 Tons of Enriched Uranium 'Disappears'
James Lewis
Enough enriched uranium to make 5-6 nuclear bombs has 'disappeared' from the
Iranian enrichment plant at Isfahan. This according to Con Coughlin of the
Daily Telegraph of London [excerpt and URL below]. This is according to IAEA
inspectors at the plant. 

According to Cosmos Magazine,

    "Little Boy, the bomb dropped on Hiroshima, used 64.1 kgs of enriched
uranium. Atomic bombs can also be built using less uranium, down to around
15 to 25 kgs of material, according to experts.

What would Obama do about it if he gets elected in two months? Judging by
other Democrat administrations like Clinton and Carter, the answer is:
Nothing. The next time Charlie Gibson of ABC News does a major headline
interview with Senator Obama or his Veep pick, it would be a good question
to ask. If I may be so bold.

What would John McCain do about it? Judging by the two Bush administrations,
the answer is: Something. Bush I stopped Saddam Hussein's occupation of
Kuwait. Bush II knocked out Saddam and Al Qaida in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Although we don't see a complete knockout blow yet. 

... "


http://www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/main.jhtml?xml=/opinion/2008/09/12/do1206.xml
"...
Although the Isfahan complex is supposed to be under close IAEA supervision,
nuclear inspectors only have access to the final storage area of the process
which produces UF6, enriched uranium that can ultimately be used to provide
weapons-grade fissile material.

According to research by nuclear inspectors, between 50 and 60 tons of UF6 -
enough to make six atom bombs - is unaccounted for. They suspect Iranian
scientists have diverted the material from the complex before it reaches the
storage rooms, where the IAEA relies on a single CCTV camera to monitor
production."


So far, the Iranians have failed to come up with an adequate explanation for
these discrepancies, and until they do the drumbeats of war are unlikely to
subside.
..."


The significance of this will be obvious to normal people. 

To the terminally thick, it won't be.  (Maybe doctors stole it?)


FACE

Terror Plan Would Give F.B.I. More Power

By ERIC LICHTBLAU
September 13, 2008

http://www.nytimes.com/2008/09/13/washington/13justice.html

WASHINGTON — The Justice Department made public on Friday a plan to expand
the tools the Federal Bureau of Investigation can use to investigate
suspicions of terrorism inside the United States, even without any direct
evidence of wrongdoing.

Justice Department officials said the plan, which is likely to be completed
by the end of the month despite criticism from civil rights advocates, is
intended to allow F.B.I. agents to be more aggressive and pre-emptive in
assessing possible threats to national security. 

It would allow an agent, for instance, to pursue an anonymous tip about
terrorism by conducting an undercover interview or watching someone in a
public place. Such steps are now prohibited unless there is more specific
evidence of wrongdoing. 

The plan is the latest in a series of steps by the Bush administration to
extend key aspects of its counterterrorism strategy beyond the end of
President Bush’s tenure. An executive order from Mr. Bush in August rewrote
the rules for the nation’s 16 spy agencies, and an administration
legislative proposal before Congress would reaffirm that the
country “remains engaged in an armed conflict with Al Qaeda.”

The proposed guidelines combine several sets of procedures into a single
document governing what F.B.I. agents can and cannot do in criminal and
national security investigations. 

The review of the guidelines generated intense interest and occasional
criticism from lawmakers and others over the summer, and the Justice
Department took the unusual step on Friday of holding briefings for
reporters and for civil rights advocates and showing them the draft plan. 

The draft is likely to be made final soon after Robert S. Mueller III, the
F.B.I. director, testifies on Tuesday before the House Judiciary Committee
and on Wednesday before the Senate Judiciary Committee. Democrats have
promised to question him closely about the new guidelines. 

After they were shown the plan, civil rights leaders said they were troubled
that the new guidelines would allow the F.B.I. to use racial and ethnic
factors to focus on Middle Easterners and others. “Racial profiling by any
other name is still unconstitutional,” said Anthony D. Romero, executive
director of the American Civil Liberties Union.

But Justice Department officials insisted that the new guidelines would not
change standards in place since 2003 for the use of race or ethnicity,
which can be considered as a factor — but not the sole factor — in terror
investigations. 

“It is simply not responsible to say that race may never be taken into
account when conducting an investigation,” Brian Roehrkasse, a spokesman
for the department, said in a statement. “The reality is that a number of
criminal and terror groups have very strong ethnic associations (e.g., the
I.R.A. was Irish, La Cosa Nostra is Italian; Hezbollah is largely
Lebanese).

“If the F.B.I. is charged with knowing whether there are elements of such
groups present and operating within the United States, it cannot ignore
those ethnic connections, any more than it would ignore the identification
of a bank robber as a short white male when trying to solve the bank
robbery.” 

Under existing guidelines, F.B.I. agents cannot use certain investigative
tools in conducting so-called threat assessments as a precursor to a
preliminary or full inquiry. The revisions would allow agents to conduct
public surveillance of someone, do “pretext” interviews — pose as someone
other than an agent or disguise the purpose of the questions — or send in
an undercover source to gather information.

Such steps are allowed in standard criminal investigations without specific
evidence of wrongdoing, and officials say they want to authorize the same
investigative steps in terrorism inquiries as well.
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