Suddenly CBSnooze finds Security at Los Alamos a problem!!!!

CBSnooze | Herzo

[herzo]

How did CBS suddenly become interested in the security of our nuclear facilities. The third item on tonights snoozecast was an "expose'" of the lack of background checks on visitors to Los Alamos. I thought that Clinton determined that there was no security problem.

[c-five]

Remember Hazel O'Leary? Hah!

[OldFriend]

Wasn't Richardson in charge when the place darned near burned down?

[Ben Hecks]

It's amazing how we can spend billions of dollars to build up a technological advantage and let one person erase it almost overnight. The Rosenberg solution should have been used in several recent cases.

[c-five]

Here's some flashback!

http://www.alamo-girl.com/0241.htm

Washington Times 4/27/99 Frank J. Gaffney Jr. "...First, Mrs. O'Leary banned personnel badges that clearly indicated whether the bearer had a security clearance and, if so, how high. Her reasoning: Such badges were discriminatory. And second, she ended the practice of requiring reports to DOE headquarters about foreign nationals from "sensitive countries" who visited the unclassified areas of the nation's nuclear weapons laboratories.

Washington Times 4/27/99 Frank J. Gaffney Jr. "...Lately, it seems that scarcely a day goes by without some new revelation about serious security problems at the Department of Energy (DOE) - or the Clinton administration's lack of seriousness about addressing them competently. Less obvious, but no less troubling, are the steps the administration is taking to punish conscientious DOE employees who have been raising alarms about these problems. Much of the blame for the present mess appears to lie with President Clinton's first energy secretary, Hazel O'Leary. Mrs. O'Leary made no secret of her hostility to her department's most important function - maintaining the nation's strategic deterrent and the thermonuclear weaponry that underpins it. While she has mercifully been gone from office for three years, the legacy of the gaggle of anti-nuclear activists Mrs. O'Leary recruited to staff senior DOE positions and the "denuclearization" and "openness" policies she and they promulgated together linger on. In fact, just last month, the current energy secretary, Bill Richardson, succeeded in sneaking through the Senate the nomination of an advocate of the abolition of nuclear weapons to serve as assistant secretary for nonproliferation and national security. This dark-of-night operation is all the more outrageous in light of the mounting evidence that this appointee, Rose Gottemoeller, is implicated in a number of the security scandals now coming to light - and the personnel actions being taken against the whistle-blowers.

[Ben Hecks]

In addition to everything else, Hazel also knocked a big dent in the government travel budget. IIRC, one of her big trips was to India.....probably greasing the skids for the Enron deal.

[BIGZ]

Hazel O'Leary is affirmative action personified.

You can't fool Mother Nature, like water the Peter Principle always applies.