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Obama to share US missile defense secrets with Russia

At Big Peace, former Republican Congressional candidate Joel Pollak reports that the Obama administration has decided to share the United States' missile defense secrets with the Russians. Do you all want me to repeat that so that you will know that you are not hallucinating? At Big Peace, former Republican Congressional candidate Joel Pollak reports that the Obama administration has decided to share the United States' missile defense secrets with the Russians (Hat Tip: Jack).

Bill Gertz of the Washington Times reports that President Barack Obama has indicated he is prepared to convey information about secret American missile defense technology to Russia:

In the president’s signing statement issued Saturday in passing into law the fiscal 2012 defense authorization bill, Mr. Obama said restrictions aimed at protecting top-secret technical data on U.S. Standard Missile-3 velocity burnout parameters might impinge on his constitutional foreign policy authority.

As first disclosed in this space several weeks ago, U.S. officials are planning to provide Moscow with the SM-3 data, despite reservations from security officials who say that doing so could compromise the effectiveness of the system by allowing Russian weapons technicians to counter the missile. The weapons are considered some of the most effective high-speed interceptors in the U.S. missile defense arsenal.

There are also concerns that Russia could share the secret data with China and rogue states such as Iran and North Korea to help their missile programs defeat U.S. missile defenses.

Even before this latest revelation, the entire enterprise of President Obama’s disarmament policy–from “reset” with Russia to selling out our European allies–had been a colossal failure, an exercise in cowardice and appeasement that placed the security of the United States at risk.

Four more years? Can the US survive it? Or are you all going to go out and work for the Republican candidate (after you make sure it's not Ron Paul)?

What could go wrong?

Labels: Barack Hussein Obama, Missile defense, Russia

posted by Carl in Jerusalem @ 12:35 PM