>>22824215 >State Department Refuses To Acknowledge Israel's Nukes

Challenging the secret "Israel Nuclear Weapons Gag Order" WNP-136

UPDATED: December 17, 2019

Institute for Research: Middle Eastern Policy has filed a 39-page federal lawsuit (https://www.irmep.org/cfp/WPN-136/1.18-cv-00777_lite.pdf) challenging the secrecy of a gag order—WNP-136 (https://www.irmep.org/cfp/WPN-136/WNP-136.pdf) that forbids all U.S. government agency employees and contractors from discussing Israel's nuclear weapons program.

The classification bulletin, which took effect on September 6, 2012, forbids covered persons from making any comment on U.S. government information or information in the public domain about Israel's nuclear weapons program.

…IRmep alleges WNP-136 serves an even more damaging purpose than misinforming the American public: WNP-136 is used to subvert U.S. Arms Export Control Act statutes on the provision of U.S. foreign aid to a country that has long possessed nuclear weapons but never signed the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty. The IRmep lawsuit notes that:

"On March 23 the President signed a $1.3 trillion spending bill into law, after Congress passed the Consolidated Appropriations Act, 2018 mandating that $3.1 billion in foreign aid be given to Israel. The authority cited for this $3.1 billion transfer (out of a total of $5.7 billion) in taxpayer funds is section 23 of the Arms Export Control Act. The American public in general, especially taxpayers, therefore have an immediate and overriding interest in knowing whether 54% of funds enabled under one section of the Arms Export Control Act (section 23) are being spent only because Defendants are proactively undermining enforcement of another section of the very same act (section 22) via the secret WNP-136."

https://www.irmep.org/cfp/WPN-136/default.asp

“WNP-136, Foreign Nuclear Capabilities.”

http://energy.gov/sites/prod/files/hss/Classification/news/FinalSeptOct2012CommuniQue.pdf