Article

2009-05-20 India-Pakistan

CIA doesnt know all Pak nuke sites: Panetta

Archived material is restricted to Rantburg regulars and members. If you need access email fred.pruitt=at=gmail.com with your nick to be added to the members list. There is no charge to join Rantburg as a member.

Posted by Steve White 2009-05-20 01:06|| || Front Page|| [8 views ] Top

#1 Dummy. If you don't know you let slip quietly that you DO know, just to rattle the Paks.

I was thinking more along the lines of Dumba$$, but Dummy will do.

Posted by gorb 2009-05-20 02:59|| 2009-05-20 02:59|| Front Page Top

#2 i know that you know that i know that you know that i dont know

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-20 07:48|| 2009-05-20 07:48|| Front Page Top

#3 The admission of a lack of knowledge about things of this nature are generally best kept to one's self. Appears Penyata is assisting Barry in loading up the airwaves with anything other than the Queen Nancy h2obrdg debacle.

Posted by Besoeker 2009-05-20 07:53|| 2009-05-20 07:53|| Front Page Top

#4 Yes, to be sure.

Posted by GirlThursday 2009-05-20 08:01|| 2009-05-20 08:01|| Front Page Top

#5 If with all our eyes and sensors we don't really know where they all are, then did we ever know where the Russians are or for that matter where the Iranian ones are? If we don't know the latter, then doesn't that make action by the Israelis even more urgent to get to them before they become more numerous? Bad play there Leon.

Posted by Procopius2k 2009-05-20 09:06|| 2009-05-20 09:06|| Front Page Top

#6 Transparency!

Posted by Seafarious 2009-05-20 09:27|| 2009-05-20 09:27|| Front Page Top

#7 then did we ever know where the Russians are or for that matter where the Iranian ones are?

No. Not even close. After the Soviet Union dissolved, we found out that they had 20,000 more nukes than declared under SALT/START.

Posted by ed 2009-05-20 10:22|| 2009-05-20 10:22|| Front Page Top

#8 Maybe this is just a CYA statement. If the Pak Nukes get loose, and we take a hit, excuses are already loaded, armed, and ready to fire. At least, IMHO, that is what the present regime in Washington, DC, think.

Posted by Alaska Paul 2009-05-20 10:22|| 2009-05-20 10:22|| Front Page Top

#9 But we do have a plan to remove what we don't know, right? And to show good faith, the US will reduce our nukes first. Obama's planning skills, derived from community organizing experience with ACORN and the sage advice from esteemed consultants that include Kissinger and Soros, have worked so well in closing Gitmo and rescuing the economy, we can all sleep well tonight. I mean, we do have a plan, don't we?????Don't we????

Posted by Danielle 2009-05-20 10:33|| 2009-05-20 10:33|| Front Page Top

#10 If he thinks we can trust Islamabad to have a "secure approach", when they have aided the proliferation to rogue states, we are in serious trouble.

Posted by Danielle 2009-05-20 10:38|| 2009-05-20 10:38|| Front Page Top

#11 The plan is to blame Bush of course.

Posted by CrazyFool 2009-05-20 12:03|| 2009-05-20 12:03|| Front Page Top

#12 Do the Paks know where all the Pak nuke sites are?

Posted by Ebbang Uluque6305 2009-05-20 14:04|| 2009-05-20 14:04|| Front Page Top

#13 I thought Panetta was smarter than this. Is his boss making his brains curdle? I'm pretty dumb on the intelligence business, but even I know you don't let slip what you don't know.

Posted by Richard of Oregon 2009-05-20 14:35|| 2009-05-20 14:35|| Front Page Top

#14 Maybe he's lying. He does work for the CIA after all.

Posted by Nimble Spemble 2009-05-20 15:42|| 2009-05-20 15:42|| Front Page Top

#15 Is this for Pakistani consumption? I can think of a couple of reasons to say such a thing: to make some factions less worried about our intentions and hopefully slow down their nuke shell game, for example.

Posted by James">James 2009-05-20 18:58|| http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com]">[http://idontknowbut.blogspot.com] 2009-05-20 18:58|| Front Page Top

#16 No need to broadcast your appalling ignorance, Leon, ya maroon...

Posted by mojo">mojo 2009-05-20 21:04|| 2009-05-20 21:04|| Front Page Top

#17 CIA: Fundamentally broken.

CIA doesn't know... but does NSA or DIA? /heh

Posted by OldSpook 2009-05-20 23:44|| 2009-05-20 23:44|| Front Page Top

23:55 Kofi Claitle6576
23:51 OldSpook
23:50 OldSpook
23:47 OldSpook
23:44 OldSpook
23:17 Pappy
23:07 Pappy
22:56 JosephMendiola
22:53 Pappy
22:46 JosephMendiola
22:36 JosephMendiola
22:13 JosephMendiola
22:09 JosephMendiola
21:53 CrazyFool
21:42 JosephMendiola
21:37 JosephMendiola
21:34 JosephMendiola
21:25 JosephMendiola
21:13 .5MT
21:06 mojo
21:05 M. Murcek
21:04 mojo
21:03 M. Murcek
21:02 .5MT