Classified Disk Is Missing at Arms Lab

Los Angeles Times ^ | 5-21-04 | Peter Hong and Rebecca Trounson

[boris]

May 21, 2004

THE STATE Classified Disk Is Missing at Arms Lab

By Peter Hong and Rebecca Trounson, Times Staff Writers

Officials at the federal nuclear weapons research lab in Los Alamos, N.M., confirmed Thursday that a computer disk containing classified information was missing from the lab, but said the loss posed no threat to national security.

Los Alamos National Laboratory spokesman Kevin Roark said he could not comment on the nature of the lost material, nor would he specify what was missing beyond a "classified removable electronic media," which could mean a CD or floppy disk.

"I don't want to downplay this too much. We take these things very seriously … but we don't believe national security was placed in jeopardy by this particular event," Roark said.

[theDentist]

I hope we didn't retain the same dullards that were responsible for security when people were stealing data during the Clinton Admin.

[TomGuy]

but said the loss posed no threat to national security.

I'm getting a bit sick of that cop-out excuse.

We are still in a pre-911 security concern. We better start waking up. The next 'big one' could kill hundreds of thousands. The attack on the WTC killed just under 3,000; it would have -- because they aimed for --- many thousands more as each building could have upwards of 40,000 people in them. We need to wake up or the next one may be 'big.'

[Terabitten]

Hey, they found the last one they lost behind the photocopier. Anybody check there?

[Semper Paratus]

No security threat. They already got everything they were after years ago.

[Cicero]

You took the words out of my mouth. They already gave away the store under clinton's watch.