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Politics : PRESIDENT GEORGE W. BUSH -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: MulhollandDrive who wrote (20766)	6/14/2000 4:18:00 PM
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'Give me a year' Good grief. It was just last week that this column suggested Energy Secretary Bill Richardson was spending too much time on Vice President Al Gore's campaign trail. After all, we revealed, for over a year Mr. Richardson had ignored one congressional committee's written request that he address questions about cyber-security measures at the Energy Department's weapons laboratories, including the Los Alamos nuclear laboratory in New Mexico. Officials there are now scrambling to locate two missing computer hard drives containing nuclear secrets. Nobody is ruling out espionage. We'd written that House Science Committee Chairman F. James Sensenbrenner Jr., had given Mr. Richardson until sundown last Wednesday to address 18 unanswered questions about espionage and national security at the weapons labs. The questions had been sent to Mr. Richardson on June 3, 1999, two weeks after his May 20 testimony on "protecting the nation's secrets." To refresh Mr. Richardson's memory, here's what he told committee members in his testimony at last year's hearing: "I would just ask you to let me run my department. Give me a year to see if I've performed. Call me up again, and I will appear again to see whether I have initiated the reforms that I said I had." washtimes.com