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HUNTER INTRODUCES "NUCLEAR SECRETS SAFETY ACT" (Duncan Hunter - 2000)
House.gov ^ | June 23, 2000 | Duncan Hunter

Posted on 06/05/2007 10:39:54 AM PDT by pissant

Washington, D.C. – Congressman Duncan Hunter (CA-52) announced today that he has introduced legislation in the House of Representatives to reestablish security at our nation's nuclear laboratories. The "Nuclear Secrets Safety Act" requires the Department of Energy (DOE) to perform a complete inventory of documents and devices containing Restricted Data and present this information to Congress. The legislation also directs the DOE to update their identification policies requiring more secure procedures to be in place for those with access to national security laboratories, including polygraph examinations, and requires that all combinations of nuclear vaults be changed within 30 days after the bill becomes law.

"The Clinton-Gore Administration has, through fumbling incompetence and short-sighted policies, lost critical defense secrets," said Hunter. "The recent incident at Los Alamos National Laboratory is indicative of the irresponsibility and disregard this administration has given to protecting America's national security. This legislation begins to correct the problem."

Since 1996, there has been the transfer of missile technology to China, inadequate tracking of supercomputers, the discovery of a Communist spy at our national laboratory, the failure to remove this same individual for 17 months, and missing computer data containing nuclear secrets. The "Nuclear Secrets Safety Act" is expected to be referred to the House Armed Services Committee where, as a member, Congressman Hunter will attempt to expedite the committee's consideration so it may be debated by the full House in the near future.


TOPICS: Extended News; Foreign Affairs; Government
KEYWORDS: alamos; duncanhunter
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To: Calpernia

If I recall, the CLintons tried to railroad one of the security guys that called out the gross lapses there.


41 posted on 06/05/2007 12:59:08 PM PDT by pissant
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To: backhoe; pissant

There was a freeper here that had a bump thread for this.

Backhoe, was that you? I remember it being someone else though...

That thread had a bunch of stories on it about this.


42 posted on 06/05/2007 1:03:16 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Related:

http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1821062/posts
An alarming loss of America’s secrets (By Duncan Hunter, circa 2000)

http://www.freerepublic.com/forum/a394951ea3f5a.htm
Terrorist Nuke Bomb Data on Hard Drives Missing from Los Alamos

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/1195679/posts
Test data missing (Los Alamos National Laboratory Cover-up nuclear weapons)


43 posted on 06/05/2007 1:47:08 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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Nuclear data missing in N.M. Friday, August 20, 2004

An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department’s regional office in Albuquerque, N.M., the department disclosed Thursday. The Energy Department said that an ‘‘accounting discrepancy’’ involving three copies of a ‘‘controlled removable electronic media’’ — or CREM — was found at the regional office as part of the nationwide inventory of such devices.

The inventory was ordered a month ago after two CREM data devices were reported missing at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, also in New Mexico. The Albuquerque facility, part of the DOE’s National Nuclear Security Administration, coordinates activities with the Los Alamos weapons lab. Bryan Wilkes, an NNSA spokesman, said that the inventory discovered three copies of a single CREM unaccounted for.

He declined to elaborate further except to say the device contained information involving nuclear weapons. NNSA Administrator Linton Brooks said that all classified work involving the computer data storage devices has been halted at the Albuquerque office, pending completion of the investigation.

‘‘I am disappointed that we have found another case of lax procedures in protecting classified information,’’ said Brooks in a statement. Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on July 23 ordered that work involving CREM — disks or other removable computer storage devices — be halted at all the government’s nuclear weapons facilities until inventories of the devices are conducted and new security procedures put in place.

The missing device at the Albuquerque office was discovered as part of that inventory, said Wilkes. Meanwhile, investigators, despite extensive searches, have yet to find the two CREM devices that were reported missing at the Los Alamos laboratory in the New Mexico mountains 100 miles north of Albuquerque.

The investigation into that incident was continuing. No one was suggesting that the classified information — either at Los Alamos or in the DOE regional office — had been stolen or that the disappearances involved espionage. However, DOE officials have been concerned about lax procedures and security involving the handing of such devices.

‘‘I expect NNSA employees, both federal and contractor, to adhere to the highest standards of performance’’ when using such data in removable computer devices, said Brooks. Aside from this latest case, the nationwide CREM inventory review so far has produced no incidents or discrepancies, said Wilkes. Many of the sites including the Savannah River nuclear facility in South Carolina, the Y-12 facility at Oak Ridge, Tenn., and the Pantex facility in Texas have resumed normal operations, according to the department.

Concerns over security and safety at the nuclear weapons lab came to a head in July, after two computer disks containing classified information were reported missing at the Los Alamos lab.

Almost all work at the lab was shut down and 23 employees were suspended as a result of the investigation into the security lapses.


National Nuclear Security Administration—www.nnsa.doe.gov Los Alamos National Laboratory—www.lanl.gov


44 posted on 06/05/2007 1:48:13 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/1730038/posts
DOD Directive 5220.6 - Defective Security Document -
Los Alamos Disks May Hold U.S. Secrets

http://209.157.64.201/focus/f-news/1731847/posts
Nuke-Lock Breach Could Be ‘Devastating’ ( Los Alamos ) -
>>>The recent security breach at Los Alamos National Laboratory was very serious, with sensitive materials being taken out of the facility — possibly including information on how to deactivate locks on nuclear weapons<<<<


45 posted on 06/05/2007 1:53:17 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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After reading the Los Alamos links and testimony, Duncan Hunter BEARS REPEATING:

"The Clinton-Gore Administration has, through fumbling incompetence and short-sighted policies, lost critical defense secrets," said Hunter. "The recent incident at Los Alamos National Laboratory is indicative of the irresponsibility and disregard this administration has given to protecting America's national security. This legislation begins to correct the problem."

He is the only MAN running for President.

46 posted on 06/05/2007 1:58:27 PM PDT by Calpernia (Breederville.com)
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To: pissant
Not good practice to over-PING folks.

That's right, just ask Arthur McGowan.

Oh, and please put me on that list too.

47 posted on 06/05/2007 2:03:50 PM PDT by ovrtaxt (I would rather vote for Lindsay Lohan than Lindsey Graham.)
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To: Calpernia

Great work!


48 posted on 06/05/2007 4:33:10 PM PDT by pissant
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To: EagleUSA

>Seems Hunter has had to do all the heavy lifting in Congress.<

As I said in another thread, Duncan Hunter is a Titan in a field of paper tigers. The man is amazing! There is no question but what Duncan Hunter is here by God’s own plan to lead His country through the land mine morass in which we now find ourselves in America.


49 posted on 06/08/2007 5:32:39 PM PDT by Paperdoll ( Duncan Hunter '08)
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To: Paperdoll

Duncan Hunter is a Titan in a field of paper tigers.
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Simply put, Hunter is a patriot. The self-serving dregs of Congress are NOT. They are all members of a “country club” on the Hill....America is not a concern, it is a tool of their empowerment of the country club membership.

Huge difference between patriots and the generic Washington pol.


50 posted on 06/09/2007 8:28:55 AM PDT by EagleUSA
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To: Calpernia

Just now spotting all your good work. Thanks for this post #40.


51 posted on 11/24/2007 1:14:36 AM PST by Mr Apple ( "VIDEO CHINAGATE" http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2970981220206109356)
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To: Mr Apple

Thanks. But I just copy and paste :)


52 posted on 11/24/2007 5:16:20 AM PST by Calpernia (Hunters Rangers - Raising the Bar of Integrity http://www.barofintegrity.us)
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