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To: nwctwx

Is this a cover up of the Los Alamos problem?

3:16 pm: Lab's 'missing' nuclear weapon disks never existed

August 10, 2004

The presumed missing computer disks that forced the security shutdown and political uproar at Los Alamos National Lab, appear to not be missing at all.

KRQE News 13 has learned that the Federal Bureau of Investigation has concluded the disks, thought to have contained nuclear weapon secrets, were never missing.

In early July, lab officials announced that the disks were missing, prompting a massive and unprecedented security shutdown and consequent investigation. Nearly two dozen scientists and administrators were placed on leave and virtually all lab operations were suspended.

Now, sources tell KRQE News 13's Larry Barker that FBI investigators have concluded the disks in question, generally called 'Classified Removable Electronic Media' or C.R.E.M., were never missing and may have never existed in the first place

The clerical error appears to center around the bar codes used to track classified material. The bar code stickers that would have been found on the supposed missing disks were instead discovered still affixed to their original printed forms.

The FBI declined comment on this report and the lab says it will release the findings of its investigation when appropriate.

Much of the lab's classified work is still shut down pending the outcome of a Department of Energy review.

The shut down has called into question the University of California's management of the facility, made longtime political supporters question lab practices and has cost taxpayers millions of dollars.

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227 posted on 08/10/2004 4:54:52 PM PDT by Honestly (There is nothing so likely to produce peace as to be well prepared to meet the enemy.)
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To: Honestly

"The clerical error appears to center around the bar codes used to track classified material. The bar code stickers that would have been found on the supposed missing disks were instead discovered still affixed to their original printed forms. "

If proceedures are not followed - errors occur. Someone - and it's not the first time - screwed up. They do not belong in this community. There are a lot of "kids" from UC Berkeley - many not U.S. Nationals working at L'Alamos and Sandia - we need to tighten-up. Long (40 years? in my experience) overdue.


250 posted on 08/10/2004 5:38:39 PM PDT by Bobibutu
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To: Honestly; All

You know I understand what Bush said many aspects of the WOT we will never hear about.

I also get that we are lied to more than not.

But what "I" am fed up with is they keep insulting our collective intelligence with stupid a$$ lame excuses/reasons/lies like this one "Never Existed"
We could get rich if we take all their lying lingo and put it in a book named:

The Government Thinks Were Stupid Speak!:

Mysterious Illness
Never Existed
Hoax

please add to this list and I will post it on next thread


471 posted on 08/11/2004 1:18:12 AM PDT by JustPiper (Obama- No More Free Ride to the Illinois Senate !!!)
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