TEL AVIV, Israel — Israel’s military fumed Monday over
the discovery that the U.S. government had revealed details of a top-secret
Israeli military installation in published bid requests.
The Obama administration had promised to build Israel a
state-of-the-art facility to house a new ballistic-missile defense system, the
Arrow 3. As with all Defense Department projects, detailed specifications were
made public so that contractors could bid on the $25 million project. The
specifications included more than 1,000 pages of details on the facility,
ranging from the heating and cooling systems to the thickness of the walls.
"If an enemy of Israel wanted to launch an attack
against a facility, this would give him an easy how-to guide. This type of
information is closely guarded and its release can jeopardize the entire
facility," said an Israeli military official who commented on the
publication of the proposal but declined to be named because he wasn’t
authorized to discuss the facility. He declined to say whether plans for the
facility have been altered as a result of the disclosure.
"This is more than worrying, it is shocking," he
said.
Pentagon spokesman Lt. Col. Wesley Miller said he couldn’t
comment on the specifics of the Arrow 3 base, but he said the United States
routinely published the details of its construction plans on a federal business
opportunities website so that contractors could estimate the costs of jobs. He
said such postings often might be revised after contracts were approved. [But this is not a US site. It belongs to the Israelis and it was to be secret].
This Administration often gives away the secrets of others (the killer virus sent to the Iranian nuclear complex, the Yemeni spy exposed, the Pakistani doctor responsible for Osama bin Laden's location, the nuclear missile count of England to the Russians, the identity of Navy Seal Team Six leading to the deaths of 17 of its members. So the above is no surprise to this editor. Obama loves to talk. He is a freaking menace to all who are not Muslim.
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