Who’d have thought revealing nuclear secrets on U.S. web sites would come back to bite us?

October 17, 2007 by William K. Wolfrum

Oct. 17, 2007:

“I’ve told people that if you’re interested in avoiding World War III, it seems like you ought to be interested in preventing [Iran] from have the knowledge necessary to make a nuclear weapon.” — President George W. Bush.

Nov. 3, 2006:

The Office of the Director of National Intelligence said yesterday that it shut down a public Web site after complaints from U.N. weapons inspectors that the site included sensitive details about constructing nuclear and chemical weapons. The documents were collected in Iraq after the March 2003 invasion but predate the 1991 Persian Gulf War.

Negroponte’s office began posting thousands of captured Iraqi documents earlier this year at the insistence of Republican lawmakers, who hoped the documents could shed light on Iraq’s prewar arsenal.

Here’s wishing you all a happy and safe World War III.

–WKW