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Kronologi over fredssagen og international politik 7. April 2006 / Time Line April 7, 2006
Version 3.004/07/2006
Modernisering af Thulebasens radar
Hvad viste befolkningen i Danmark, Grønland og USA om
moderniseringen af Thuleradaren inden beslutningen tages?
Hvad indebærer den store modernisering af Thuleradaren?
Hvis den danske og grønlandske befolkning ikke vidste noget,
fungerer dansk demokrati vedrørende Thulebasen?
Er danske og grønlandske politikere informeret om
kontrakten?
Hvordan er danske og grønlandske politikere og
embedsmænd inddraget i beslutningsprocessen vedrørende
denne nye kontrakt?
Hvorfor inddrages den danske og grønlandske befolkning ikke
i beslutningsprocesser om Thulebasen før de
træffes.
Hvorfor tager den danske statsminister til Thule efter
kontraktunderskrivelsen?
Statsministeren besøger
forsvarets installationer i Grønland
CONTRACTS from the United States Department of Defense
The Missile Defense Agency is awarding the Raytheon Co., of Woburn,
Mass., a cost-plus-award-fee letter contract. This contract is to
upgrade the early warning radar at Thule Air Base, Greenland. The
not-to-exceed award value for this effort is $114,073,000. The
period of performance is from April 2006 to September 2010. The
principal place of performance will be at the Raytheon Co. in
Woburn, Mass. Work will also be performed at Thule Air Base,
Greenland. Contract funds will not expire at the end of the current
fiscal year. The Missile Defense Agency is the contracting activity
(HQ0006-06-C-0012).
Raytheon Solipsys Corp., 6100 Chevy Chase Drive, Suite 200, Laurel,
MD is being awarded a cost-plus-award-fee contract for engineering
and technical support related to data distribution system and range
mission tool software upgrades to the Pacific Missile Range
Facility, Barking Sands, Kekeha, Hawaii, tactical display
framework. The total estimated value of the contract is
$28,085,856. The work will be performed on the island of Kauai,
Hawaii, and the period of performance is from April 2006 to
September 2010. None of the funds will expire at the end of the
current fiscal year. The Naval Sea Systems Command, Washington, DC
is the contracting activity (N00024-06-C-6101).
04/07/2006
WHAT THE PRESIDENT LEAKED
Authorized Leak or Declassification?
The Documents Behind the Bush Administration's Intelligence
Disclosure on Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction
National Security Archive Update, April 7, 2006
Washington, D.C., 13 March 2006 - Only 14 of the full 93 pages of
the National Intelligence Estimate that President Bush authorized
Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis "Scooter" Libby,
to disclose to New York Times reporter Judith Miller has actually
been officially declassified, according to a posting today on the
Web site of the National Security Archive at George Washington
University.
The estimate has apparently been released in four forms:
* one, a white paper that purportedly represented the substance of
the estimate but actually left out most of the dissents and
caveats;
* second, an abstract that Mr. Libby apparently used to brief New
York Times reporter Judith Miller on July 8, 2003;
* third, the July 18, 2003, release by the White House of the "key
judgments" section and parts of the dissents;
* and fourth, a Freedom of Information Act release to the National
Security Archive on June 1, 2004, that included two additional
pages but left the vast majority of the estimate whited out.
The July 18, 2003, "key judgments" document was declassified and
released by the Bush administration just ten days after President
Bush authorized Vice President Cheney's chief of staff, I. Lewis
"Scooter" Libby, to disclose similar information to Miller,
according to Libby's testimony before a grand jury.
"The ship of state is the only vessel that leaks from the top,"
commented Thomas Blanton, executive director of the National
Security Archive.
Also included in today's posting is the October 2002 unclassified
presentation on "Iraq's Weapons of Mass Destruction Programs," with
the seal of the Director of Central Intelligence on the cover, and
a version of the NIE released by the CIA on June 1, 2004, in
response to a Freedom of Information Act request by the National
Security Archive. The document was almost completely redacted by
CIA censors. All of the text except for the two title pages and the
two pages listing National Intelligence Council members had
previously been disclosed in the July 2003 release.
04/07/2006
VANDENBERG LAUNCHES MINUTEMAN III
Release No. 06-0403
http://www.vandenberg.af.mil/~swStaff/public_affairs/releases/060403%20MMIII%20success.doc
VANDENBERG AIR FORCE BASE, Calif. – An unarmed Minuteman III
intercontinental ballistic missile was launched from North
Vandenberg today at 6 a.m. The launch was part of a developmental
test to demonstrate the weapon system’s effectiveness in a
stressed environment on extended range...
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