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Politics : GOPwinger Lies/Distortions/Omissions/Perversions of Truth -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: American Spirit who wrote (2768)	2/16/2004 12:49:50 AM
From: geode00	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 173976

60 minutes did a piece today about how vulnerable our nuclear labs are. What are we spending our money on and where? How serious is Shrubbery about "mushroom clouds". Such bs for consumption by the gullible. cbsnews.com Of all the places in the United States that you'd think would be prepared to defend against a terrorist attack, the nine nuclear weapons factories and research labs - operated by the Department of Energy - would be at the top of the list. But a recent investigation by the government's General Accounting Office found that the Department of Energy may not be up to the task – and that security at these sites is inadequate.... Since 9/11, 60 Minutes has learned that terrorists have penetrated multiple layers of security on at least three occasions at the Y-12 nuclear complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn., the country's primary facility for processing weapons-grade uranium; and at the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico, where the first atomic bomb was developed....