Posted on 02/03/2016 8:08:31 AM PST by Freeport
In June 2014, a worker at the Y-12 National Security Complex in Tennessee was surprised to find U.S. nuclear secrets inside a trash bag marked for disposal along with standard rubbish. Taking a closer look, the worker found 19 more documents in the bag that were either marked classified or were later determined to contain information that should have been labeled secret.
A dozen more bags of trash sat nearby, awaiting transport to an open landfill where Y-12 workers routinely dump garbage with no bearing on national security. When employees of Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services, Y-12, LLC, the contractor responsible for running the site at that time, poked inside two of these additional bags, they found more top-secret documents.
“(They) then decided not to search any additional containers because they were, given the prior results, presumed likely to contain additional classified information,†a preliminary notice of violation issued Feb. 2 by the Energy Department’s enforcement arm said.
Many of the records discovered that day detailed how the department’s employees and contractors worked with nuclear explosive materials, such as highly-enriched uranium, housed at the Y-12 complex. But it quickly got worse: Further investigation by the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees such work, led officials to conclude that nuclear secrets had been thrown away with lax security at the Tennessee plant for more than 20 years.
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Honest mistake.
Sometimes I don’t think other countries need to spy on us to find out about of technology.
We are our own worst enemy in terms of giving it away.
“See? Everybody does it!” — Hillary Clinton
Example # 1,000,001 of how the government is much, much worse than private industry at pretty much everything.
Not even close. Handling classified material is completely different than “trash” anywhere I’ve ever worked.
From it’s creation to destruction, there is a positive chain of ownership.
There are no “honest mistakes” with classified material. Ever.
This will be Hillary’s latest excuse for why it’s not so bad what she did...
SEE? Hillary is common folk, she too made a few mistakes. Why should she be picked on and threatened with jail? It’s because of the vast right wing conspiracy, and she IS a woman dontcha know.
worked on sensitive documents in Graphics dept. of investment bank in NYC.
one jerk stole a printout of one and sold it.
He was arrested and all of us in the graphics center industry had to pay the price. Instead of tossing out a bad page it had to go in a special folder, etc.
Yeah, this pretty hard to believe.
Covering for Hillary. They all do it™
And so there arent second and third signoffs before classified/confidential info hits the trash
And isnt this stuff to be shredded after that?
Watch it be some Ames or Hansen type who’s “drop” is the local trash
Good Lord, what idiots in charge
So, everybody does it, I guess?
Good grief. Forty years ago I worked for a jewelry company. A rival company’s employees were rifling through bags of our company documents at the local landfill. We were trained within an inch of our lives on security measures. It was the first I’d heard of industrial espionage. Unbelievable what’s going on with the nuke secrets.
The timing of this story is suspect.
Hillay’s email deflection will start with a declaration that our security systems are old, and outdated for our modern world...and in fact breaches are so common that her emails are a mere drop in the bucket...and of course, she as POTUS will save us all, and ‘fix’ the system...after a blue ribbon commission studies the problem of course.
Same goes for stories that Barry and Kerry emailed her - it will add to the narrative that its impossible to ‘do the government’s work’ with our current security apparatus...practically everybody emails outside of the secure system...and HRC knows more than anyone else how to fix it.
Same here. We didn't even have trash cans in the vault. Everything was shredded. No paper products, like candy wrappers or tissues, were even allowed into the vault. Any notes you made while in the vault stayed in the vault until they were shredded.
Were Chinese, Russian, Cuban and Iranian spies crawling around in that landfill?
this is Hillary disinformation to establish her innocence by relative action
For those who don’t know, Y12 was U235 enrichment using electro-magnetic separation.
Women sat in front of panels 24/7 adjusting the field strength.
Centrifuge separation replaced it.
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