Two years ago President Bush offered the following in his State of the Union Address:
“Our discoveries in Afghanistan confirmed our worst fears and showed us the true scope of the task ahead. We have seen the depth of our enemies’ hatred in videos where they laugh about the loss of innocent life. And the depth of their hatred is equaled by the madness of the destruction they design. We have found diagrams of American nuclear power plants and public water facilities, detailed instructions for making chemical weapons, surveillance maps of American cities, and thorough descriptions of landmarks in America and throughout the world.”
Don’t you think that if there was a specific threat toward nuclear facilities, it might be a good idea to let the Nuclear Regulatory Commission know about it?
Edward McGaffigan Jr., a member of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, responding to an environmental group’s query, said this month that he testified in 2002 after the speech in at least one closed congressional hearing that he was not aware of any evidence that ” ‘diagrams of American nuclear power plants’ had been found in Afghanistan.”
I’m not a homeland security expert like the gurus in this administration, but I’m thinking it might be a good idea to pass along supposed threats to the people in charge of vulnerable facilities.