STORM2K

Ya know...you'd think that SOMEONE, SOMETHING could STOP this information from LEAKING OUT! It's ALMOST as BAD as the Az/Mexico Border issue


http://www.azcentral.com


More nuke data missing in N.M.


H. Josef Hebert
Associated Press
Aug. 20, 2004 12:00 AM


WASHINGTON - An inventory has found another case of missing data involving nuclear weapons, this time at the Energy Department's regional office in Albuquerque, the department disclosed Thursday.

The Energy Department said that an "accounting discrepancy" involving three copies of a "controlled removable electronic media," or CREM, was found at the regional office as part of the nationwide inventory of such devices.

The inventory was ordered a month ago after two CREM data devices were reported missing at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, also in New Mexico.

The Albuquerque facility, part of the department's National Nuclear Security Administration, coordinates activities with the Los Alamos weapons lab.

Bryan Wilkes, a security agency spokesman, said the inventory discovered three copies of a single unaccounted-for CREM. He declined to elaborate further except to say the device contained information involving nuclear weapons.

Agency Administrator Linton Brooks said that all classified work involving the computer data storage devices has been halted at the Albuquerque office, pending completion of the investigation.

"I am disappointed that we have found another case of lax procedures in protecting classified information," Brooks said in a statement.

No one was suggesting that the classified information had been stolen or that the disappearances involved espionage.

Unfortunately, we have a bunch of ding dongs running these places who don't really give a darn about security. In addition, whoever hires is not doing a good job at screening the applicants. Who knows? Is is possible there is some INTERNAL theft occurring?

Now were starting in on that whole conspiracy issue. But, you are right, how do such important things like this just dissapear

Sounds like there are quite a few loose screws at these facilities that need to be tightened!!!! Or better yet welded shut!!!

And I can testify to the fact that a lot of them are ding dongs!! Most of those people are Nuclear physicists or the like and one has got to be VERY SMART(mensa level or more imo)to work in that field. I've seen it with my own eyes at FSU's Nuclear reasearch labs where my Mom worked in the 60's. Most of them were too smart for their own good(not much common sense), but they understtod the workings of the nuclear world quite intricately!!