The report also says Levernier, a 22-year DOE veteran, was stripped of
his security clearance in 2001 after raising security concerns.
Levernier has filed a whistleblower lawsuit.
From The Washington Post, 10/7/03:
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/articles/A53447-2003Oct6.html
Weapons Lab Security Lax, DOE Whistleblower Charges
Associated Press
Tuesday, October 7, 2003; Page A05
NEW YORK --
Security at the nation's nuclear weapons labs is so lax that the
facilities have repeatedly failed drills in which mock terrorists
captured radioactive material and escaped, according to an article in
Vanity Fair magazine.
"Some of the facilities would fail year after year," said Rich
Levernier, who spent six years running war games for the U.S.
government.
"In more than 50 percent of our tests at the Los Alamos facility, we
got in, captured the plutonium, got out again, and in some cases
didn't fire a shot, because we didn't encounter any guards."
These failures occurred despite security forces at the Los Alamos
National Laboratory and other nuclear facilities knowing the dates of
the drills months in advance, according to the article.
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Georgie Bush's idea of homeland security? Oh well.
Harry
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