Monday, March 21, 2005

Pretty much whatever we can get away with

On the lying front that is. The Bush Administration is trying to tar the North Koreans with aiding rogue states, but they're doing it with, per usual, misinformation:
In an effort to increase pressure on North Korea, the Bush administration told its Asian allies in briefings earlier this year that Pyongyang had exported nuclear material to Libya. That was a significant new charge, the first allegation that North Korea was helping to create a new nuclear weapons state.

But that is not what U.S. intelligence reported, according to two officials with detailed knowledge of the transaction. North Korea, according to the intelligence, had supplied uranium hexafluoride -- which can be enriched to weapons-grade uranium -- to Pakistan. It was Pakistan, a key U.S. ally with its own nuclear arsenal, that sold the material to Libya. The U.S. government had no evidence, the officials said, that North Korea knew of the second transaction.
Of course, this group is clad in teflon, so probably nobody will even notice this increase in the bs pile...

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