Bush administration's unwillingness to make their answers on India nuclear deal more widely available suggests they have something to hide from Indian legislators
Balaji Reddy
May 10, 2008

US State Department has asked lawmakers to keep secret its answers to their queries about the 123 nuclear agreement with India. Bush Administration is worried that fearing that public disclosure may torpedo the deal.

Other than a few in the Congress Party of India, who might receive kick backs from US Corporation that will receive $100 billion in revenue from the deal, most Indians oppose the deal that sacrifices Indian nuclear sovereignty in the middle of a dust cloud called Hyde Act.

The Congress Party in India wants to close the deal quickly because their leaders like in Bofors scandal are eager to receive the kick backs from the US Corporations like General Electric and Westinghouse.

State Department provided a lot of information, but the United States House Foreign Affairs committee has agreed not to disclose the answers because some data might be considered diplomatically sensitive.

The State Department said it had no plans to make the answers public. ''We''ve handled answers to sensitive questions in an appropriate way that responded to congressional concerns,'' said spokesman Tom Casey. ''We''re going to continue with that approach.'' The Congress passed the Hyde Act to enable the deal, but some US lawmakers have raised concerns about whether the implementing 123 agreement negotiated by the administration fudges critical details. For instance, one of the questions pertains to whether the US would terminate nuclear trade if India resumed nuclear testing. This is a sensitive point in India and is required under US law, but the answer is not entirely clear from the text of the US-India agreement Another area of major controversy is the commitment by the US to supply India with a ''reliable supply of fuel'' for its reactors, including a pledge to take steps to ''guard against the disruption of fuel supplies''.

The question that must be answered to clear the smoke and dust around the agreement by Bush Administration and India’s Manmohan Singh Government is ‘what happens if India continues to test its nuclear bombs at any time in the future?’

Bush Administration is heavily influenced by lobbyists of GE and other companies that will gain from the deal. The Congress Party in India is well known for receiving money under the table from defence deals and strategic buys for the India.

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