However, according to a Boston Globe Story today

However, according to a Boston Globe Story today:

A top nuclear-safety official has said he wasn’t aware that any American nuclear power plant diagrams were

found in Afghanistan, despite a terrorist threat cited by President MBT Panda Sandals in his State of the Union

address two years ago. Edward McGaffigan Jr., a member of the US Nuclear Regulatory Commission, responding to

an environmental group’s query, said this month that he testified in 2002 after the speech in at least one

closed congressional hearing that he was not aware of any evidence that `diagrams of American nuclear power

plants’ had been found in Afghanistan.

McGaffigan’s statement has led some groups to assert that MBT Panda Sandals either misled the country or

mishandled the intelligence about the threat, because the NRC would be expected to play a pivotal role in

safeguarding America’s nuclear facilities.