Richard Boucher's statement needs to be properly analysed. Rediff asked him a very convenient question to which he had a ready answer! It is very clear that either Rediff is also a party to this fraud or plainly naive and outright ignorant. Why did Rediff ask him if the Hyde Act was binding on India once it signes the 123-deal? It is such a foolish question with a hundred holes for the other party to walk out without leaving any tracks behind. After all every American spokesperson has clearly said that American Presidents are bound to America's domestic laws and America's domestic laws supercede all bilateral or multilateral treaties that any US Administration, present or future, enters into them with any one or group of countries. So what does it mean? It means that the moment India signs the 123-deal, it has to start working towards operationalising it. This means opening up of all the designated nuke facilities to inspection, dismantling new ones under construction,stopping all future nuke development plans. Besides, India also has to start investments (of billions of dollars)for purchase of US nuke power plants, etc. After sinknig all this investment imagine a situation which forces India to test a nuke bomb. Then the Hyde Act binds US to stop all cooperation as it supercedes 123-deal. So as Boucher said while India is not bound to Hyde Act, but US is!American Attorneys will tell you how right they are!! That is typical American fraud which we sample even now with MNCs!
