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Posted By TemplarScribe 4 months, 1 week ago in NewsThe fact that Defense Secretary Robert Gates ousted the Air Force's top military and civilian leaders Thursday, in a historic shake-up, isn't the real story here. The real story is that, after multiple investigations, the Air Force is being held responsible at the highest level for the flight in August '07 of a B-52 bomber armed with six nuclea
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TemplarScribe4 months, 1 week ago
Con't: The Air Force is being held responsible at the highest level for the flight in August '07 of a B-52 bomber armed with six nuclear warheads.
Multiple investigations have shown that nukes cannot leave their bunkers without extensive authorization. The latest is the classified report by Admiral Kirkland Donald, of which Gates gave a limited oral summary, covering both the B-52 ioncident and the shipping of nuclear triggers to Taiwan.
It my be significant that Gates chose a Navy officer to investigate the rival branch. It may also be significant that gates' statement said "Donald found a 'lack of effective Air Force leadership oversight' of its nuclear mission. Not that there wasn't oversight, but that the oversight wasn't effective.
It may also be significant that gates said the investigation found "a decline in the Air Force's nuclear mission focus and performance." A lack of focus? Is he suggesting they're focused on some other goal?
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TemplarScribe4 months, 1 week ago
Does this have anything to do with the fact that of the six warheads, one of them was "lost" while on the tarmac in Louisiana, and still not recovered? There have been over Air Force 70 firings over this incident, and the investigations aren't over.
FTA: "Donald's investigation found a 'lack of a critical self-assessment culture' in the Air Force, making it unlikely that weaknesses in the way critical materials such as nuclear weapons are handled could be corrected, Gates said."
That sounds to me like the processes are not the problem, but that the personnel are.
The conspiracy minded of you might note that the head of the Air Force base in Minot where the nukes were loaded, who also lost his job, was a golfing buddy of the man who owned the Florida pilot training facility where two of the 9/11 hijackers trained.
The fact that they both attended the same golfing event on that fateful September week, might raise even more eyebrows.
Hmmm...
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TemplarScribe4 months, 1 week ago
Another relevant article covers the B-52 incident in chilling detail:
http://www.afterdowningstreet.org/?q=node/28254
FTA: "While the Air Force report doesn't mention any of this, what it means is that if weapons in a storage bunker are protected against unauthorized removal, someoneâ;;and actually at least two people, since it's long been a basic part of nuclear security that every action involving a nuclear weapon has to be done by two people working in tandemâ;;had to deliberately and consciously disable those alarms."
More chilling:
"Why hasn't the Air Force or the FBI investigated the 6-8 untimely deaths including three alleged suicides, one of a Minot weapons guard, one of an assistant defense secretary, and one of a captain in the super-secret Air Force Special Commando Group, as well as alleged fatal vehicle "accidents" involving four ground crew and B-52 pilots and crewmembers at Minot and Barksdale?"
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jovial4 months, 1 week ago
Hush, hush. Nukes and their whereabouts are top secret. I don't think we will know anytime in the immediate future about the whole story. Good article.
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HannibalBarca4 months, 1 week ago
FTA: "As the Air Force's senior uniformed leader, I take full responsibility for events which have hurt the Air Force's reputation or raised a question of every airman's commitment to our core values," Moseley said.
Now if only politicians thought this way, "The Buck Stops Here" must mean cheney is deer hunting
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Spadecaller4 months, 1 week ago
OY... We should learn how to police ourselves first, before taking on the world. We have manufactured and sold more wmd than any other nation -- besides having more wmd than any other country. How does that appear to the rest of the world? Would you think it might make them feel a bit uneasy?
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TemplarScribe4 months, 1 week ago
This is from the Global Research story (link #2 above):
"This is where the chain of command in regards to military officers falls into play. If any of the stocked inventories of nuclear weapons are moved to an authorized location they will be noticed and tracked by the DTRA and will require the relevant authorization. There is also a code system involved that is tied to the chain of command."
"The fact that the incident only apparently became known to the U.S. Air Force when military personnel reported it, suggests that either the nuclear weapons were ordered to be moved or that the electronic tracking devices had been removed or tampered with. This scenario would need the involvement of individuals with expertise in military electronics or for those responsible for the monitoring of nuclear weapons to look the other way or both."
In other words, you're absolutely right. Ther's more to this story. Much more.
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Radiofreeeuropa4 months, 1 week ago
This business is quite fishy... (gone fission?). I suspect there is more to this than a few scapegoats. It's just unimaginable these men are so incompetent. There's more.
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TemplarScribe4 months, 1 week ago
I'm not so sure that they did fall on their own swords.
Gates had asked Air Force Secretary Wynne (the civillian of the pair) to fire Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Michael Moseley sometime last week (the last week of May), and that Wynne refused. That infuriated Gates enough to have them both fired.
One wonders why the AF Secretary would openly defy the Sec. of Defense like that.
If there is a hero in any of this (besides the brave service personnel who came forward to blow the whistle on the Minot nukes event), then it's Gates, who had the cajones to buck the Pentagon and reign in these maverick officers, and who has made it a point of overhauling our complete handling of nuclear weapons (as well as asking for a full inventory of nuclear weapons and associated material).
I'd highly recommend to Presdent Obama, if and when the time comes, to keep Mr. Gates onboard for another four years.
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hyperbola4 months, 1 week ago
What would guarantee the continuation of Cheney's plans for "regime change" throughout the mideast? What would be required to shock Americans into accepting another turn of the screw in the loss of their own democracy as the Iraq lies become ever clearer? Wouldn't we need another "event" of considerably greater magnitude than 9/11?
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