Workers Say They Are Underprepared to Detect Bombs in Cargo
By Jim Hoffer
(New York-WABC, May 20, 2004) — This story begins with an air cargo worker who's been fired after she refused to become a human bomb detector.
Her story exposes a dirty little secret about airport security -- a secret Jim Hoffer has been investigating.
A worker at Starbuck's gets more training for making espresso's than some cargo workers get for detecting explosives. Two cargo workers tell us they were trained to be bomb screeners in just a couple of hours and then given an ultimatum (snip)
http://abclocal.go.com/wabc/news/investigators/wabc_investigators_052004cargo.html
Los Alamos Lab: Classified Data Missing
LOS ALAMOS, N.M. - Classified information was discovered missing at Los Alamos National Laboratory this week, but a lab spokesman said the data would not jeopardize national security even if it fell into the wrong hands.
The information, which was on a data storage device, was still unaccounted for Thursday, said LANL spokesman Kevin Roark. A federal review team is set to investigate.(snip)
http://www.timesleader.com/mld/timesleader/news/8716935.htm