secret nuclear weapons documents found in N.Mex. drug raid

[donsu]

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2006/11/03/national/main2151021.shtml


Nuclear Lab Breach Could Be 'Devastating'
CBS News Exclusive: Data Found In Drug Raid Contains Weapons-Design Secrets


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As CBS News correspondent Sharyl Attkisson was the first to report, secret documents apparently taken from the lab were found during a drug raid at a Los Alamos-area home last month. The FBI was called in to investigate.


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A federal official who has been briefed on the issue said at least three USB thumb-drives were involved. Those small storage drives contained 408 separate classified documents ranging in importance from Secret National Security Information (pertaining to intelligence) to Secret Restricted Data (pertaining to nuclear weapons).

All of the information came from the classified document video media vault inside the Lab. Federal officials also found 228 pages — printed front and back — of classified documents in the drug trailer during their investigation.

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The woman believed to have taken the information — Jessica Quintana, 22, who owned the trailer — worked in three classified vault rooms across Los Alamos:

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and the republicans are yelling that americans won't be safe under the democrats

[Warpy]

1. However, on local NM news

the story is that the lab worker had a legitimate reason to take it home and work on it there and that her roommate was the tweaker and she didn't know about it (except that trailer was SPOTLESS!).

I'm afraid this one goes into my "wait and see" file.