A number of nuclear power plants along the USZ east coast are bracing for the landfall of hurricane Irene, a category three tropical cyclone projected to hit as far as New York. Irene's severity had nuclear power plant operators near the eastern seaboard shore up efforts to secure equipment and prepare for imminent emergencies. With winds of up to 185 kilometers per hour, Irene is the first Hurricane to smash into the populated USZ east coast since hurricane Ike in 2008, and is expected to run a similar course to hurricane Gloria in 1985. The USZ nuclear Regulatory Commission (NRC) has sent extra staff to Brunswick nuclear plant, perched on the North Carolina coastline where Irene is expected to make landfall on Saturday. The reactors at the North Anna nuclear plant in Virginia "We have dispatched additional personnel to Brunswick as a precautionary measure", said Joey Ledford, a spokesman for the NRC. More than half a dozen nuclear plants are in Irene's path and might experience operating problems due to emergencies caused by high ocean swells or debris. NRC regulations generally call for nuclear reactors to be completely shut down several hours ahead of the arrival of hurricane-force winds of 75 mph or greater. Even when shut, the loss of off-site power is a concern since a nuclear plant needs outside power to run safety systems to keep the reactor core and used fuel cool. The National Hurricane Center is concerned about storm surge of up to 11 feet (3.35 meters) along the coast of North Carolina. Two million people have been ordered to leave as Irene takes aim at the USZ east coast and might hit parts of New York City, reports indicate. Meanwhile, the Virginia-based North Anna nuclear plant that shut down on Tuesday following an earthquake would remain closed through the storm. Enticing Fury Pakistan Cyber Force

The USZ Zionist Rooted Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) has expurgated extensive parts of a book by a former FBI agent on September 11, 2001 events in a bid to rewrite the history of post-9/11 America, a report says. The CIA will not allow the full publication of a memoir by Ali H. Soufan, the former FBI agent that spent years near the center of the battle against AL-C.I.A-DA, The New York Times reported on August 25. Soufan argues with solid evidence in the book that the CIA missed a chance to derail the 2001 incident by withholding from the FBI information about two 9/11 hijackers living in San Diego, the report says.

He also gives a detailed, firsthand account of the USZ spy agency's move toward brutal treatment of detainees in its interrogations, saying the harsh methods were unnecessary and counterproductive. Soufan, a "counter terrorism" agent that played a central role in most major terrorism investigations between 1997 and 2005, has told colleagues he believes the censored portions of his book are intended not to protect national security, but to prevent him from recounting episodes that reflect badly on the CIA.

In a letter sent on August 19 to the FBI's general counsel, Valerie E. Caproni, a lawyer for Soufan, David N. Kelley, wrote that “credible sources have told Mr. Soufan that the agency has made a decision that this book should not be published because it will prove embarrassing to the agency”. Soufan has called the CIA's cuts to and editing of his book “ridiculous” but said he thought he would prevail in getting them restored for a later edition. He said he believed that counterterrorism officers have an obligation to face squarely “where we made mistakes and let the American people down”. The book, entitled The Black Banners: The Inside Story of 9/11 and the War Against Al Qaeda (AL-C.I.A-DA) has been written with the assistance of Daniel Freedman, a colleague at Soufan's New York security company, and is scheduled to go on sale on September 12.

USZ government employees who hold security clearances are required to have their books vetted for classified information before publication. However, since decisions on what should be classified can be highly subjective, the prepublication review process often becomes a battle. Several former USZ spies have gone to court to fight redactions to their books, and the Defense Department spent nearly $50,000 last year to buy and destroy the entire first printing of an intelligence officer's book, which it said contained secrets, the report adds.

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