Bent and Quivering Pinnacle

It's a Google-ie kinda day to cut & paste away. So much to choose from. Read on, citizens.
B-52 Nukes Headed for Iran, Not For Decommissioning:
Airforce Refused
Air Force refused to fly weapons to Middle East theater
By Wayne Madsen, Sept. 24, 2007, Author's website, (subscription only)
Global Research, September 27, 2007
Wayne Madsen Report (WMR)
WMR has learned from U.S. and foreign intelligence sources that the B-52 transporting six stealth AGM-129 Advanced Cruise Missiles, each armed with a W-80-1 nuclear warhead, on August 30, were destined for the Middle East via Barksdale Air Force Base in Louisiana.
However, elements of the Air Force, supported by U.S. intelligence agency personnel, successfully revealed the ultimate destination of the nuclear weapons and the mission was aborted due to internal opposition within the Air Force and U.S. Intelligence Community.
Yesterday, the Washington Post attempted to explain away the fact that America's nuclear command and control system broke down in an unprecedented manner by reporting that it was the result of "security failures at multiple levels." It is now apparent that the command and control breakdown, reported as a BENT SPEAR incident to the Secretary of Defense and White House, was not the result of a command and control chain-of-command "failures" but the result of a revolt and push back by various echelons within the Air Force and intelligence agencies against a planned U.S. attack on Iran using nuclear and conventional weapons.
The Washington Post story on BENT SPEAR may have actually been an effort in damage control by the Bush administration. WMR has been informed by a knowledgeable source that one of the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles was, and may still be, unaccounted for. In that case, the nuclear reporting incident would have gone far beyond BENT SPEAR to a National Command Authority alert known as EMPTY QUIVER, with the special classification of PINNACLE.
...WMR has learned from military sources on both sides of the Atlantic that there was a definite connection between Israel’s OPERATION ORCHARD and BENT SPEAR involving the B-52 that flew the six nuclear-armed cruise missiles from Minot Air Force Base in North Dakota to Barksdale.
http://www.globalresearch.ca/index.php?context=va&aid=6909

Betty Crocker Blue Ribbon Panel to Tests Nukes

Wow! Is Barbara Starr related to Brenda Starr? Brenda (not Barbara), was my hero! If heroes never lie, then it must be true that a few stupid, clumsy pilots mistakenly flew nukes from North Dakota to Louisiana without clearance or ANY procedures, on a lark.

Air Force officers relieved of duty over loose nukes
updated 7:37 p.m. EDT, Fri October 19, 2007
From Barbara Starr, (CNN)
A six-week probe into the mistaken flight of nuclear warheads across the country uncovered a "lackadaisical" attention to detail in day-to-day operations at the air bases involved in the incident, an Air Force official said Friday.
… Wynne has convened a blue-ribbon panel to review all of the Air Force's security procedures and adherence to them. That panel is to report back on January 15.
What a relief they are "reviewing" this incident. We do have lots of time, citizens, not to worry. Just set those pies on the window sill, get a tall glass of lemonaide and wait until ...?
http://www.cnn.com/2007/US/10/19/loose.nukes/index.html

Previous posts on this story:
The Loose Nukes Story Has a New Wrinkle
October 14, Nuke transportation story has explosive implications
By ROBERT STORMER
and
Four Minutes to Midnight?
September 14, 2007, Nuclear Bombs Mistakenly Flown Over US
By PAULINE JELINEK

Loose Nukes Col. Bruce Emig