Of Course it's not terrorism. It's Trade...
The Feds have arrested a man in LA who worked at a nuclear power plant in Arizona, quite [sic] his job, and went to Iran. Once there, he downloaded the floor plan of the facility. Here’s most of the AP story, and please stay with me:
[snip] The FBI said there was no evidence to suggest the software access was linked to the Iranian government, which has clashed with the West over attempts to develop its own nuclear program.
“The investigation has not led us to believe this information was taken for the purpose of being used by a foreign government or terrorists to attack us,” said Deborah McCarley, a spokeswoman for the FBI in Phoenix.
What gets me, once again, is the FBI’s rush to non-judgment. First, no evidence that there’s any connection to the Islamic Republic. Second, no reason to think that the data might be used to attack us.
Riiiight. Internet use in Iran is dangerous; the regime monitors and filters it. You can get tortured for going to sites of which the regime disapproves. So this guy got the floor plan for our biggest nuclear reactor. Why would he want THAT?
Maybe so a sleeper cell could go blow it up? Why else? Do tell, FBI. You’re the same folks who were quick to tell us that an Egyptian shooting people standing in line at LAX to checkin [sic] with El Al certainly wasn’t a terrorist, aren’t you?
Can’t the Bureau just do its work and let us know when they’ve finished? Good grief.
Wading through the misspellings, weird punctuation and capitalizations in this diatribe, Ledeen is apparently miffed that the FBI hasn't announced publicly that they've caught an Iranian spy and that the bombs start dropping in 5 minutes.
Aren't they behaving responsibly if the investigation is ongoing? And even if they've genuinely caught an Iranian spy trying to steal American technology, wouldn't it be wise to control that information for lots of pretty obvious reasons?
Ledeen is just unhinged.
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