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To: Neocon who wrote (148262)	10/20/2004 11:23:28 AM
From: Michael Watkins	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 281500

Has anyone from the Department of Energy contradicted the administration official's assertion? When someone does, get back to me..... Yes. Do you not read? Meanwhile, at the Energy Department, scientists were startled to find senior White House officials embracing a view of the tubes they considered thoroughly discredited. 'I was really shocked in 2002 when I saw it was still there,' Dr. Wood, the Oak Ridge adviser, said of the centrifuge claim. 'I thought it had been put to bed.' Dr. Wood is a big wig within DOE. An old bio: srs.gov She is the director of Oak Ridge National Laboratories, which employs 3800 staff and has a budget of over 1 billion annually. Oak Ridge is where plutonium was extracted for the Manhattan project. DOE accounts for 80% of their funding and National Security is one of their missions. We can assume her security clearance is pretty darn high -- far higher than some political spokesperson hack trying to deflect attention away from the administration. Given her position, her comments on this subject have nothing but meaning. I consider her voice credible in the extreme. The real question is, why don't you?