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Russian military leaders have expressed concern about US plans for a national missile defense system. Will defense technology be limited by possibilities for a strategic imbalance? Is this just SDI all over again?

rshowalter - 04:31pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6860 of 6861)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

In MD 6809 rshowalter 7/9/01 4:44pm .. I asked a question -- and the issue involved was whether I was committing treason -- a serious issue.

MD6024 rshowalter 6/25/01 4:52pm contains a good, short question -- I asked:

" What have I said that is not in the national interest? "

I still think that's a good question -- and I believe I've been serving the national interest to high standards.

gisterme replied to the question directly in these posting, and said some related things in other postings:

MD6028 gisterme 6/25/01 6:58pm ... MD6033 gisterme 6/25/01 7:45pm
MD6060 gisterme 6/26/01 3:13pm ....

Eventually - gisterme conceded a key point -- that the technical possibilities and probabilities connected to classified work can be evaluated in term of open literature knowledge in the United States. That means that stamping something "CLASSIFIED" is not a license to commit limitless fraud.

rshowalter - 04:36pm Jul 10, 2001 EST (#6861 of 6861)
Robert Showalter showalte@macc.wisc.edu

I'm prepared to go forward with much of that checking, on missile defense, and many of the basic facts, including the fact that it is easy to immunize a missile or warhead from lasar damage, are in this thread. http://www.phy.davidson.edu/jimn/Java/Coatings.htm

If gisterme does not have high government connections -- and is not speaking with authority --- gisterme has often written to convey a sense that those connections exist.

I've suggested in MD6808 rshowalter 7/9/01 4:43pm . . . that gisterme represents this administration, and could not write as extensively as gisterme does, without the knowledge and backing of the very highest levels of the Bush administration, including:

National Security Advisor Condaleezza Rice,

Secretary of Defense Donald Rumsfeld,

Deputy Secretary of State Richard Armitage,

Deputy Secretary of Defense Paul Wolfkowitz,

Deputy National Security Advisor Stephen Hadley,

and the people they report to.

That's my opinion. I think it is a reasonable opinion, amounting by now to an overwhelming probability -- and I think that many other people, looking at the circumstances, might form the same opinion.

This is an opinion of mine that can be checked. I'm prepared to submit to checking on anything I've said on this thread. The stakes are high enough here, that checking should be justified. Indeed, for people who claim to be decent members of society, morally forcing.

The administration's missile defense initiative is a massive fraud, and I can't see how anyone in the Bush administration control group can escape knowing it.

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