After a comprehensive debunking by IRmep, the Washington Post quietly corrected a Walter Pincus report that implied the U.S. was supporting Israel’s clandestine nuclear weapons program.
On November 28, 2012 national security reporter Walter Pincus claimed in an article that “Over the years, the Corps (US Army Corps of Engineers) has built underground hangers for Israeli fighter-bombers, facilities for handling nuclear weapons (though Israel does not admit having such weapons), command centers, training bases, intelligence facilities and simulators, according to Corps publications.” The online version of the article now bears a correction over the report:
“This article has been updated to remove the assertion that the Army Corps of Engineers had built ‘facilities for handling nuclear weapons’ in Israel. In response to a Freedom of Information Act request submitted to the Army by a reader seeking to verify the assertion, an attorney for the Corps wrote that ‘that none of the facilities that USACE has been involved with [in Israel] were nuclear weapons handling facilities.'”