Sentence examples for flawed blueprints from inspiring English sources
Risen's testimony is being sought at the trial of Jeffrey Sterling, the former agent who was indicted in 2010 for revealing classified information, including the tale of a failed CIA plan to provide Iran with flawed blueprints for a nuclear weapon.
After the story was published, the government contends, Sterling began telling Risen about Operation Merlin, a failed CIA plot to hand Iran a deliberately flawed blueprint for a nuclear warhead.
The book reported that the C.I.A. had recruited a Russian scientist who fed flawed nuclear blueprints to Iran.
Within a day, attorneys in another case involving highly sensitive information — that of the former C.I.A. officer Jeffrey Sterling, who had been convicted of leaking to the journalist James Risen the details of a secret mission to provide flawed nuclear blueprints to Iran via a Russian intermediary — were arguing in court that their client should receive a sentence on par with Petraeus's.
It's notable that Risen describes the Obama administration as more aggressive, considering his experience with the Bush administration, which successfully lobbied Times senior editors in 2003 not to publish Risen's story on a bungled CIA plan to provide flawed nuclear blueprints to Iran -- a story that later appeared in his 2006 book.
He's charged with giving the author classified information -- about the CIA's Operation Merlin, a dangerous maneuver that provided flawed nuclear weapon blueprints to the Iranian government in 2000.
Yes, the blueprint was intentionally flawed, so it was supposed to set back Iran's nuclear program by several years, but, according to Risen, Operation Merlin was slipshod and clumsily handled, possibly causing the effort to backfire.
It scorned his energy price freeze idea, arguing that it was "flawed in practically every detail, to the point where it is almost a blueprint for blackouts".
Already, Hilmi Ozkok, who was the Chief of General Staff when the coup blueprints were allegedly conceived, appeared to suggest that he did not believe the trial was flawed.
