{"id":5290,"date":"2008-05-11T11:33:21","date_gmt":"2008-05-11T17:33:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/impeach_bush_blog\/?p=5290"},"modified":"2017-05-21T16:21:09","modified_gmt":"2017-05-21T22:21:09","slug":"us-india-nuke-details-too-hot-to-handle","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/blog\/2008\/05\/us-india-nuke-details-too-hot-to-handle\/","title":{"rendered":"<b>U.S. &#8211; India Nuke Details Too Hot To Handle?<\/b>"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/impeachforpeace.org\/index.php\"><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 14pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bolder; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: justify; text-decoration: underline\"><img decoding=\"async\" style='float: left; margin: 0px 15px 15px 0px; width: 250px;' src=\"https:\/\/web.archive.org\/web\/20151209180730\/http:\/\/wire.ggl.com\/wp\/wp-content\/uploads\/2007\/12\/gagged.jpg\" \/>U.S. Gov&#8217;t Issues &#8216;Gag&#8217; Order On N-Deal Report<\/span><br \/>\n<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"font-family: Arial; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: justify; font-size: 9pt\">9 May 2008, 1824 hrs IST PTI<br \/>\nCopyright \u00c2\u00a9 2008 Times Internet Limited. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n<div style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 12pt; color: #000000; font-weight: normal; font-style: normal; text-transform: none; text-align: justify\">WASHINGTON: With the Indo-US civilian nuclear agreement remaining stalled, the US State Department has issued a &#8220;virtual gag order&#8221; to the Congress, asking it to keep even unclassified information &#8220;secret&#8221; out of fear that public disclosure could &#8220;torpedo&#8221; the deal.Lynne Weil, a spokeswoman for the House Foreign Affairs Committee, said the State Department provided a lot of information on the deal, but the committee has agreed not to disclose the answers because &#8220;some data might be considered diplomatically sensitive.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>However, the Washington Post said on Friday that the deal was in &#8220;such desperate&#8221; straits that the State Department had imposed the &#8220;unusually strict condition&#8221; asking the lawmakers to &#8220;keep secret&#8221; the answers it has provided.<\/p>\n<p>The State Department made the request to Congress because though the answers were not classified, the officials fear that public disclosure would torpedo the deal, unnamed sources were quoted as saying by The Post .<\/p>\n<p>Nearly 50 questions posed by Congress are highly technical, but they were carefully crafted to get to the heart of the balancing act the administration has performed between adhering to the letter of US non-proliferation law and assuaging Indian concerns that it was not being treated like a true nuclear power, the daily said.<\/p>\n<p>One of the questions, it is said, pertains to whether the US would terminate nuclear trade if India resumes nuclear testing, a sensitive point in New Delhi.<\/p>\n<p>Though it is required under US law, but the answer is not entirely clear from the text of the US-India agreement.<\/p>\n<p>A group of prominent non-proliferation experts have decried the &#8220;virtual gag order&#8221;, but so far the answers have not leaked as only a handful of lawmakers have been able to read them<\/p><\/div>\n<p><span style=\"font-family: Arial; font-size: 9pt; color: #000000; font-weight: bold; font-style: italic; text-transform: none; text-align: justify\"><br \/>\nhttp:\/\/timesofindia.indiatimes.com\/US_govt_issues_gag_order_on_N-Deal_Report\/rssarticleshow\/3025566.cms<br \/>\n<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>U.S. Gov&#8217;t Issues &#8216;Gag&#8217; Order On N-Deal Report 9 May 2008, 1824 hrs IST PTI Copyright \u00c2\u00a9 2008 Times Internet Limited. 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