Nuclear Politics

Washington Post: N. Korea's Nuclear Plans Were No Secret. According to this shocking (but not surprising) story, the Bush Administration received critical intelligence confirming N. Korea's uranium enrichment program in November 2001, but said nothing, not even to the N. Koreans, for almost a year. Why?

Some critics say the Bush administration kept secret the most worrisome intelligence about a North Korean nuclear plant out of concern that public disclosure would undermine the campaign against Iraq, or interfere with the pursuit of Osama bin Laden and his network. Top administration officials have repeatedly denied that they suppressed the intelligence for political reasons.

Given that the Bush White House politicizes every policy decision, this denial rings quite hollow.