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“SECURITY FAILURE AT LOS ALAMOS” mentioning the U.S. Dept. of Energy was published in the House of Representatives section on pages H4596 on June 19, 2000.
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SECURITY FAILURE AT LOS ALAMOS
(Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
Mr. GIBBONS. Madam Speaker, once again, our national security has been endangered by the incompetence of the Department of Energy. It seems that the DOE cannot keep track of our Nation's most sensitive and top-secret information.
After nuclear weapons information was stolen last year from the Los Alamos lab, the American people were promised, they were promised that the lab security would be enhanced and such a security breach would never again occur.
Well that was 1999, Madam Speaker. So much for the Clinton-Gore administration promises.
It seems that the enhanced security did not take into consideration the human element. The human element is not one's pet dog.
Perhaps the DOE thought that the potential threat aliens from Mars posed to our national security needed to be addressed before ensuring that our top-secret information was secure from real-life human beings.
It is time that this administration wake up and make our national security a top priority.
I yield back the administration's so-called security policies which fail to protect our Nation's secrets.
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