BRACish gruel: Our Nation's security and our local economy at risk.

The Asbury Park Press published an article today, Analyst's early warnings on BRAC ignored that raises very serious questions about the wisdom and legality of closing Fort Monmouth and moving its operations to the Aberdeen Proving Ground in Maryland.

Reviewing the materials cited by the Press is alarming:

Federation of American Scientist: BRAC: Suppressed Internal Papers Disclosed. There are hundreds of pages of analysis and documentation here that conclude:

"Security concerns were used as a pretext to suppress data that threatened to publicly expose a severely flawed and fatally compromised process. The attached material provides convincing evidence that essential BRAC data were suppressed because it showed no future excess capacity and thereby revealed that the TJCSG’s closure and realignment proposals failed to meet the legal requirement of supporting the DoD’s Force Structure Plan. There is firm evidence that some Pentagon officials deliberately misled the BRAC Commission, thereby deceiving the President, U.S. Congress, the rest of the DoD, and the American public about the fairness of the closure process and the validity of proposals affecting the Defense Department’s laboratories and technical centers."

These are extremely serious allegations from an apparently credible source. New Jersey's Congressional delegation should immediately call for halt to any actions or expenditures associated with the closure of Fort Monmouth until Congressional hearing determine the truth of these allegations. U.S. Attorney Chris Christie should launch a criminal investigation. The cost and impact of these allegations, if true, makes everything else that Christie's office has worked on look trivial.