Richardson needs to clean this up before '08. Anyone check Hillary's nightstand?
Richardson doesn't have any "real" authority over Los Alamos NATIONAL Labs anymore ... Merely the Governor of the state it is in.
Other than maybe ordering the NM State Police or NM National Guard to take over the place (and President Bush and Samuel W. Bodman, the current SoE, might have a thing or two to say about that) he can't do anything more than make a nuisance of himself there.
Conceivably, Arnie has more power at LANL than Richardson has... since he is the governor of the State University (University of California) that has Management authority over the place.