by CKR
Jim Hoagland of the MSM is tantalizing us with the Highly Classified Reports he has access to. Strangely enough, those reports are consistent with the very worst of all possibilities: that Syria has been trying to produce plutonium with the help of the North Koreans. As he also wonders, why has this not affected the negotiations with "a secretive government addicted to power politics and flexing its military muscles" and, er, North Korea too?
The reason why, the estimable Dr. Jeffrey Lewis continues to maintain, is that it was a delivery of Scuds, not nuclear stuff. This makes far more sense and is far more credible than Jim Hoagland's
But highly classified U.S. intelligence reports say that the Israelis destroyed a nuclear-related facility and caused North Korean casualties at the site, which may have been intended to produce plutonium, according to a senior official with access to those reports.It takes a reactor to produce plutonium in bomb quantities. It's hard to hide a reactor. And why is the President not vowing to do something about those senior officials leaking "highly classified reports?" Seems pretty serious to me.