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Energy Dept. Operations Halted Over Disks
abc ^ | 7/23/04

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.


TOPICS: Crime/Corruption; Government; US: New Mexico
KEYWORDS: chinagate; computerdisks; doe; energydepartment; losalamos; security; spying

1 posted on 07/23/2004 12:28:33 PM PDT by knak
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To: knak

Anybody check Sandy's pants?


2 posted on 07/23/2004 12:30:28 PM PDT by keat (This post is a failure of, above all, imagination.)
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To: knak

Is this what Hazel O'Leary was upset a couple of days ago which caused her to get kicked off the plane?


3 posted on 07/23/2004 12:37:53 PM PDT by what's up
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To: knak; snopercod; joanie-f

Bump.


4 posted on 07/23/2004 12:38:04 PM PDT by First_Salute (May God save our democratic-republican government, from a government by judiciary.)
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To: knak

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.


5 posted on 07/23/2004 12:48:36 PM PDT by jimtorr
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To: knak

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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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6 posted on 07/23/2004 12:51:06 PM PDT by ALOHA RONNIE (Vet-Battle of IA DRANG-1965 http://www.LZXRAY.com)
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To: what's up; keat; Smartass; MeekOneGOP; Grampa Dave; PhilDragoo; potlatch; devolve; truthandlife; ...
LOST ALAMOST ping.


7 posted on 07/23/2004 12:58:20 PM PDT by Happy2BMe (Ronald Reagan to Islamic Terrorism: YOU CAN RUN - BUT YOU CAN'T HIDE!)
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To: knak

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


8 posted on 07/23/2004 1:05:48 PM PDT by CedarDave (John Kerry --"A man of conviction" [unless the situation changes ...])
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To: knak

Check the desk of Wen Ho Lee(spelling). Oh wait, here they are behind this here photo copier. Shazaam! Now how'd that happen?


9 posted on 07/23/2004 1:22:17 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: knak
Different case - same story...

I posted a thread on Thursday that illustrates how classified is supposed to be handled. The title of the thread is Details of Classified Document Handling Procedures.

bout "honest mistakes" vs premeditation. If you have already read this, please ignore.

The thread can be found here.
10 posted on 07/23/2004 1:22:59 PM PDT by tang-soo (Prophecy of the Seventy Weeks - Read Daniel Chapter 9)
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To: what's up

I still wil bet that O'Leary was trying to skip the country!

Her ass is NEXT to go to jail!


11 posted on 07/23/2004 2:08:37 PM PDT by steplock ( www.spadata.com)
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To: knak
I was flabbergasted when I learned there are citizens of China working at Los Alamos..a number of them.

We seem to be too stupid a society to endure very long.

12 posted on 07/23/2004 3:12:22 PM PDT by NoControllingLegalAuthority
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To: Happy2BMe
Los Alamos is way over due for a good old fashion
head knocking...followed by pink slips!!!



13 posted on 07/23/2004 3:35:09 PM PDT by Smartass ( BUSH & CHENEY IN 2004 - Si vis pacem, para bellum - Por el dedo de Dios se escribió.)
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To: knak
"The announcement comes after two computer disks were reported missing from Los Alamos on July 7.

Has anyone searched Berger's underwear?

14 posted on 07/24/2004 8:59:49 AM PDT by kimosabe31
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To: NoControllingLegalAuthority
I was flabbergasted when I learned there are citizens of China working at Los Alamos..a number of them.

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.

15 posted on 07/24/2004 11:24:46 AM PDT by kimosabe31
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