{"id":1943,"date":"2004-01-14T10:16:08","date_gmt":"2004-01-14T14:16:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blogs.law.harvard.edu\/dbnews\/2004\/01\/14\/bush-leaks-on-operation-badger\/"},"modified":"2004-01-14T10:16:08","modified_gmt":"2004-01-14T14:16:08","slug":"bush-leaks-on-operation-badger","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/14\/bush-leaks-on-operation-badger\/","title":{"rendered":"Bush Leaks on Operation Badger"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a name='a2284'><\/a><\/p>\n<table width=\"537\" border=\"0\">\n<tr>\n<td>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/cyber.law.harvard.edu\/blogs\/static\/dowbrigade\/badger.gif\" width=\"200\" height=\"161\" align=\"left\"><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">Asked<br \/>\n        Monday about former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s allegation that<br \/>\n        the administration was preparing to attack Iraq from its first days in<br \/>\n        office,President Bush told reporters that &quot;we were dealing with Desert<br \/>\n        Badger or flyovers and fly-betweens and looks, and we were fashioning<br \/>\n        policy along those lines.&quot; <\/p>\n<p>        Desert Badger? This led to some head scratching around town. A Nexis search<br \/>\n        reveals no public mention of a recent operation called Desert Badger,<br \/>\n        although there are references to the University of Wisconsin Badgers.<br \/>\n        <br \/>\n        So it seemed we&#8217;re left with several alternatives: <\/p>\n<p>\n        1. Bush has revealed a heretofore undisclosed Pentagon name for some campaign<br \/>\n        in Iraq, maybe to enforce the &quot;no-fly&quot; zones or to suppress<br \/>\n        antiaircraft operations. <\/p>\n<p>        2. He&#8217;s thinking of the famous Project Badger, a biological warfare vaccine<br \/>\n        study. <\/p>\n<p>        3. He was recalling those Iraqi TU-16 &quot;Badger&quot; bombers. <\/p>\n<p>        4. He&#8217;s confusing his foxes and his badgers &#8212; Operation Desert Fox was<br \/>\n        the name for a four-day bombing campaign against Iraq in December 1998.<br \/>\n        <\/font><\/p>\n<p><font face=\"Arial, Helvetica, sans-serif\">from <a href=\"http:\/\/www.washingtonpost.com\/wp-dyn\/articles\/A14540-2004Jan13.html\">the<br \/>\n        Washington Post<\/a><\/font> <\/p>\n<\/td>\n<\/tr>\n<\/table>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Asked Monday about former Treasury Secretary Paul H. O&#8217;Neill&#8217;s allegation that the administration was preparing to attack Iraq from its first days in office,President Bush told reporters that &quot;we were dealing with Desert Badger or flyovers and fly-betweens and looks, &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/2004\/01\/14\/bush-leaks-on-operation-badger\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":299,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1443],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1943","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-esl-links"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/299"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1943\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/archive.blogs.harvard.edu\/dowbrigade\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}