US To Terrorists: “Bomb Here”

Like an inadvertent confession in an unfortunate late-night “drunk dial,” the adminstration of President Barack Obama “accidentally” transmitted a secret list of U.S. government and civilian nuclear facilities, information which ended up on a government website for the whole world – including the parts of it that hate us – to see.

The information has since been removed from the Internet, but the government is in full-scale damage control mode as it attempts to deal with the, um, “fallout.”

Yeah … we wish we hadn’t used such an obvious pun, either, but we’re pretty much like Pontius Pilate once we’ve written something.

Anyway, from the AP:

The 266-page document was published on May 6 as a transmission from President Barack Obama to Congress. According to the document, the list was required by law and will be provided to the International Atomic Energy Agency …

… an Energy Department official, who spoke on condition of anonymity because the official was not authorized to discuss the situation publicly, said none of the sites on the list are directly part of the government’s nuclear weapons infrastructure.

Included in the report, however, are details on a storage facility for highly enriched uranium at the Y-12 complex at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory in Tennessee and some sites at the Energy Department’s Hanford nuclear site in Washington state, this official acknowledged.

Beth Hayden, a spokeswoman for the Nuclear Regulatory Commission, said the agency reviewed the document as it relates to civilian facilities with NRC licenses and “we are confident that information of direct national security significance was not compromised.”

“Direct” national security significance?

Ruh-roh.

So let’s get this straight … Barack Obama is going to name a new “Cybersecurity Czar” to protect us from evil on the Internet, but then he’s going to publicly release our nation’s nuclear secrets in downloadable format on the Internet?

Sounds like a brilliant plan to us.