Pretty soon, one would think that the people of this country would start to take notice.....Today's news: Top secret nuclear info missing from Los Alamos lab after fire....
First, (see bottom of article)...no charges, then lap tops with top secret info disappear from State Department, and actual snooping in the Secretary of State's office....and no charges....then a massive fire is started....no charges, but a retirement with full pay....and NOW, nuclear weapons and "other highly sensitive classified " secrets are missing....JUST IN THE LAST FEW MONTHS>.....Coincidence???? WHERE are our "leaders"????? And our citizens????? And our press????
KLP
Top secret nuclear
information missing from
Los Alamos lab after fire
LOS ALAMOS, New Mexico-- An
investigation has been launched into the
disappearance of nuclear weapons secrets
and other highly sensitive classified
information from Los Alamos National
Laboratory, officials said Monday.
"This is an extremely serious matter, and
we are taking swift actions to deal with it,"
laboratory director John Browne said in a
statement.
Ed Curran, director of the Energy
Department's office of counterintelligence,
said, "At this point there is no evidence that
suggests espionage is involved in this
incident."
The secret material was stored on computer
hard drives and discs in containers in a vault
in Los Alamos' most highly classified area,
the so-called "X Division," where designers
of nuclear weapons do their work. Sources
said the empty containers were found inside the vault.
The disappearance of the records was reported to Energy Department
headquarters June 1 after officials went to search for them following massive
wildfires on the laboratory grounds and elsewhere in Los Alamos and nearby
towns.
"Officials are conducting an exhaustive search of computers, safes,
containers and vaults and have interviewed all staff members who had access
to the vault where the media (nuclear materials) were stored," the laboratory
said in a news release.
The investigation has become more difficult because many of the lab's
scientists left the area last month because of the wild fires that swept the
region. The lab itself was evacuated May 10 for five days. Officials repeatedly
have said that all nuclear material was safeguarded and not threatened by the
fires.
The same nuclear laboratory was embroiled in an espionage controversy
involving a former lab scientist for much of last year.
The scientist, Wen Ho Lee, was arrested in December for misuse of secret
nuclear data and awaits trial. Lee was investigated for three years in
connection with the alleged loss of U.S. nuclear secrets to China, but he
never has been charged with espionage.
The Associated Press contributed to this report. |
