The Clinton Legacy

From The Conservative Voice:

Last night, radio talk show host and former US Justice Department official Mark Levin shocked many listeners when he reported that President Bill Clinton gave nuclear technology to the Iranians in a harebrained scheme.

He said that the transfer of classified data to Iran was personally approved by then-President Clinton and that the CIA deliberately gave Iranian physicists blueprints for part of a nuclear bomb that likely helped Tehran advance its nuclear weapons development program.

The CIA, using a double-agent Russian scientist, handed a blueprint for a nuclear bomb to Iran, according to a new book "State of War" by James Risen, the New York Times reporter, who exposed the Bush administration's controversial NSA spying operation, claims the plans contained fatal flaws designed to derail Tehran's nuclear drive.

But the deliberate errors were so rudimentary they would have been easily fixed by sophisticated Russian nuclear scientists, the book said.

The operation, which took place during the Clinton administration in early 2000, was code named Operation Merlin and "may have been one of the most reckless operations in the modern history of the CIA," according to Risen.

Of course the mainstream media will jump on this and investigate it thoroughly. We will soon start seeing Nightline and 60 Minutes segments about it and it will no doubt be the subject of Newsweek and Time cover stories.

Yeah, right.

There is nothing here to really surprise. Bill Clinton was incompetant and surronded himself with incompetants.

The article goes on to say that this story, if true, may not hurt Hillary's chances in '08 because the MSM will run interference for her. This is certainly true, however we now live in the age of cable TV, the internet and talk radio. Just as the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth were able to do enough damage to Kerry to sink his candidacy this could easily become the iceberg that wrecks the SS Hillary.