President Obama is considering sharing top secret missile technology with Russia, to allay Moscow’s fears over the US’ ability to strike down Russian ICBMs.
Ellen Tauscher with Barack Obama
From the Washington Times:
President Obama signaled Congress this week that he is prepared to share U.S. missile defense secrets with 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.
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.
Officials from the State Department and Missile Defense Agency have discussed the idea of providing the SM-3 data to the Russians as part of the so-far fruitless missile-defense talks with Moscow, headed in part of by Undersecretary of State Ellen Tauscher, who defense officials say is a critic of U.S. missile defenses.
Their thinking is that if the Russians know the technical data, it will help allay Moscow’s fears that the planned missile defenses in Europe would be used against Russian ICBMs. Officials said current SM-3s are not fast enough to catch long-range Russian missiles, but a future variant may have some anti-ICBM capabilities.
Ms. Tauscher has repeatedly denied that her talks with the Russians are secret. However, the administration has provided almost no briefings about the talks to Congress, which prompted critics of the talks to include language in the new defense spending law limiting data-sharing.
Section 1227 of the defense law prohibits spending any funds that would be used to give Russian officials access to sensitive missile-defense technology, as part of a cooperation agreement without first sending Congress a report identifying the specific secrets, how they would be used and steps to protect the data from compromise.
The president also must certify to Congress that Russia will not share the secrets with other states and that it will not help Russia “to develop countermeasures” to U.S. defenses.
The certification also must show whether Russia is providing equal access to its missile defense technologies, which are mainly nuclear-tipped anti-missile interceptors.
Mr. Obama said in the signing statement that he would treat the legal restrictions as “non-binding.”
“While my administration intends to keep the Congress fully informed of the status of U.S. efforts to cooperate with the Russian Federation on ballistic missile defense, my administration will also interpret and implement section 1244 in a manner that does not interfere with the president’s constitutional authority to conduct foreign affairs and avoids the undue disclosure of sensitive diplomatic communications,” Mr. Obama said, incorrectly identifying the section of the law containing the restrictions.
If a missile scientist or Defense Department analyst was caught doing this, what would happen to him?
Can it be ignored that Communist Party “friend” Barack Obama has a long history with pro-Soviet activists such as Frank Marshall Davis and Alice Palmer?
Or that both Obama and Ellen Tauscher (a so called moderate Democrat) were supported in their political careers by the Council for a Livable World – a leftist ‘peace’ Political Action Committee, founded by former Manhattan Project scientist and alleged Soviet agent Leo Szilard.
The question to ask is this… If Barack Obama were an agent of Moscow, would he be behaving any differently than he is today? Why does he seem so keen to appease the Russians at every step?
At one time, President Obama’s past associations would have prevented him from cleaning the latrines of any military base in the US.
Is Obama weakening the US in relation to Russia out of foolishness or by design? Better perhaps to err on the side of caution and assume the latter.
Of course he’s willing to share secrets with the Russians, he’s a bonafide communist himself. This is just one more indicator of how far this bastard will go to destroy the republic, he is succeeding. We have a secretary of state who goes around the globe championing gay rights, our schools are little more than locked down indoctrination centers where the kids learn all about global warming and how we have to be inclusive to everyone, except of course, Americans, they live with a constant police presence, are patted down, forced to give urine samples, suspended for wearing anything that is patiotic, Christian groups have to meet in secret, while the muslims meet with full approval of the all inclusive administration, we are in a world of shit!
A federal appeals court overturned the Oklahoma law regarding sharia law. The good people of Oklahoma understand the danger posed by sharia law and passed their own law declaring the U.S. Constitution IS the law of the land. The assclowns on the federal appeals court overturned the law, basically telling not only Oklahomans, but the entire country that we the people no longer have a say.
A question to my brother and sister veterans out there, is this why we served and risked our lives for? Is this worth the blood of countless thousands of Americans who died defending our freedom? Is this the land of the free? Absolutely NOT! We have become a police state and a far more viscious one than the Nazis had.
I watched in horror today as Americans who protesting the passing of NDAA were roughed up and tossed out of Grand Central Station, others were arrested! WTF? America, you had better wake the fuck up, we are damn close to total destruction as a nation, at the hands of the people we elected!!!