Los Alamos Missing Disks Never Existed

Hal9000_sn3 writes "Turns out that the investigations carried out at Los Angeles National Laboratory over a matter of stolen research were flawed...because the missing disks never existed. Kind of hard to defend against having lost something you allegedly had access to, if the thing never existed." From the article: "Eventually, four were fired for security breaches, one chose to resign under the threat of termination and seven others received various formal reprimands."

Comments

Re:Conspiracy Theory?

[quarkscat]

Thank goodness that the Bush administration
has resolved this glaring security breech,
to the relief of the UofCA management (and us
all).

Not to quibble, but the Bush administration
does seem to have a problem separating truth
from "realpolitik" and "propaganda". From
a Bush_43/44 historical perspective, this
administration has never let truth get in
the way of their greater political goals.

Re:Conspiracy Theory?

[demachina]

Hmmmm. Someone from Lockheed must have some mod points this morning :)

Sorry man, I know the truth about your company hurts, but that doesn't exactly make it flamebait. Its not exactly a secret that has the U.S. Government in general and the Republican party in particular wrapped around their little finger, much to the detriment of U.S. taxpayers. All those big campaign contributions and that revolving door hiring generals and politicians does buy influence, a lot of it.

Re:Missing disks was only one problem...

[jimhill]

"Slightly sloppy" does not extend to copying data from a classified LAN to an unclassified LAN, then taking the media off-site. That is a violation of the Atomic Energy Act of 1954. Wen Ho Lee is a criminal. That "everybody does this" excuse he floated is a steaming load of horseshit.