Political Quotes

“On June 29, 1993, Senator McCain and I introduced the Iran-Iraq Arms Non-Proliferation Amendments of 1993, a bill to revise and add to the National Defense Authorization Act for fiscal year 1993. At our request, our Dear Colleague letter was printed in the Congressional Record along with our statements introducing the amendment. On pages S8241-2, appendix A of our letter, "List of Foreign Suppliers to Iraq's Nuclear Weapons Technology and Material," was published and included a reference to a German company, Nukem, which was alleged to have supplied U\235\ fuel pins and centrifuge materials. This information was compiled from a number of open sources; the particular reference to Nukem was obtained from a Washington Post article of August 17, 1990, which restated an erroneous report which had appeared earlier in the German magazine, Der Spiegel. Senator McCain and I regret that the listing we had published in the Record contained erroneous information pertaining to Nukem.”