Posted on 07/23/2004 12:28:32 PM PDT by knak
ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. July 23, 2004 — Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham on Friday ordered a halt to all Energy Department operations across the country that use the kind of computer disks reported missing last week at Los Alamos National Laboratory.
Under his order, each Energy Department installation will suspend operations Monday involving removable data-storage devices such as computer disks. Each site will conduct an inventory of such items and perform weekly inventories after that.
The announcement comes after two computer disks were reported missing from Los Alamos on July 7. On Thursday, that lab announced that 19 employees had been suspended pending an investigation into the security breach and a separate incident in which a worker suffered an eye injury from a laser.
"While we have no evidence that the problems currently being investigated (at Los Alamos) are present elsewhere, we have a responsibility to take all necessary action to prevent such problems from occurring at all," Abraham said in a statement from Washington.
Anybody check Sandy's pants?
Is this what Hazel O'Leary was upset a couple of days ago which caused her to get kicked off the plane?
Bump.
This is the sort of thing done at any normal secure facility when classified material goes missing, and the employees involved have demonstrated willfull disregard for the rules.
Agency-wide review of security procedures and compliance is certainly warranted and many years overdue.
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The Fires of LOS ALAMOS =
America's own Suitcase NUKE Technology is stolen
Anything going on down there at LOS ALAMOS is very serious business, Folks.
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Two other recent stories here:
LANL Told Its Survival at Stake (Los Alamos National Lab)
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177247/posts
FBI Agents Seize Items From Los Alamos Store
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1177255/posts
Check the desk of Wen Ho Lee(spelling). Oh wait, here they are behind this here photo copier. Shazaam! Now how'd that happen?
I still wil bet that O'Leary was trying to skip the country!
Her ass is NEXT to go to jail!
We seem to be too stupid a society to endure very long.
Has anyone searched Berger's underwear?
This has been going on since the start of Nixon/Kissinger "ping pong" diplomacy. The "red" chinamen have had broad access to our national labs and nuke technology enabling clinton to "modernise" the red army nuke rocket/missile forces, threaten Taiwan and CONUS all in exchange for campaign bribe money during the 90's.
I doubt Nixon thought we'd ever have an occupant of the whitehouse who would essentially "unlock" security at the national labs and let the chinamen raid our classified data.
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