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Atomic Labs Across the U.S. Race to Stop Iran

http://www.nytimes.com/2015/04/22/us/in-atomic-labs-across-us-a-race-to-stop-iran.html?rref=homepage&module=Ribbon&version=origin&region=Header&action=click&contentCollection=Home%20Page&pgtype=article&_r=0

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Anonymous said…
Here is an article from another news site that gives a different view on the subject vs. what the
New York Times posts. Interesting
how the different sites can give
different answers...

http://davidstockmanscontracorner.com/all-praise-to-the-iranian-nuclear-framework-it-finally-exposes-the-war-partys-big-lie/
Anonymous said…
It should be pretty clear, based on past NYT/WP stories, that this is an effort on the part of the Administration to buttress its claim that any deal with Iran has been reviewed/blessed/endorsed by the DOE labs. And the labs are all too eager to be cited for such publicity.

Not unlike the previous week's stories about Moniz sitting there at the negotiations whizzing out the numbers in real-time.

No different than the Judy Miller stories for Iraq war/WMD justification by the Bush II administration.

Question is, though, is this a good deal in the long run?
Anonymous said…
It's fluff.
Anonymous said…
Hope they do a better job than b hussein o, irans us representative did.

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