{"id":894,"date":"2009-09-27T17:31:19","date_gmt":"2009-09-27T21:31:19","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/?p=894"},"modified":"2009-09-27T22:30:54","modified_gmt":"2009-09-28T02:30:54","slug":"senator-feinstein-unfamiliar-with-centrifuges","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/894\/senator-feinstein-unfamiliar-with-centrifuges\/","title":{"rendered":"Senator Feinstein Unfamiliar With &#8220;Centrifuges&#8221;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In an <a href=\"http:\/\/www.foxnews.com\/fns\/\" target=\"_blank\">interview this morning on <em>Fox News Sunday<\/em><\/a>, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D &#8211; California) gave Americans cause for concern by demonstrating a less-than-razor-sharp familiarity with a rudimentary element of national and global security. Senator Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, stumbled immediately out of the blocks when she appeared unfamiliar with the term &#8220;centrifuge,&#8221; a mechanism that plays an essential role in uranium enrichment and Iran&#8217;s pursuit of nuclear weaponry.<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wallace:\u00a0\u00a0 Let&#8217;s start with Iran, and the disclosure that it has been building a secret nuclear enrichment facility.\u00a0 Let me start with you, Senator Feinstein.\u00a0 How strong is the evidence that this is to provide fuel for a bomb, and how sure are we that there aren&#8217;t other secret facilities in Iran?<\/p>\n<p>Senator Feinstein:\u00a0\u00a0 Well, the evidence is strong that there was, that there is, such a facility, that it&#8217;s capable of about 3,000 various&#8230;\u00a0 umm&#8230;\u00a0 oh, what&#8217;s the word&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>Chris Wallace:\u00a0\u00a0 Centrifuges.<\/p>\n<p>Uh-oh&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In an interview this morning on Fox News Sunday, Senator Dianne Feinstein (D &#8211; California) gave Americans cause for concern by demonstrating a less-than-razor-sharp familiarity with a rudimentary element of national and global security. Senator Feinstein, who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, stumbled immediately out of the blocks when she appeared unfamiliar with the term [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[198,130,197],"class_list":["post-894","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-posts","tag-centrifuge","tag-iran","tag-senator-feinstein"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=894"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":901,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/894\/revisions\/901"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=894"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=894"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/cfif.org\/v\/freedom_line_blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=894"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}