Nuke Weapons Data Sent Via Unssecured E-mail

[kpete]

Nuke weapons data sent via unsecured e-mail
Los Alamos lapse angers lawmakers, who say they weren't told earlier

Updated: 10:23 a.m. PT June 15, 2007
SANTA FE, N.M. - Officials with the contractor that runs Los Alamos National Laboratory sent top-secret data regarding nuclear weapons through open e-mail networks, the latest potentially dangerous security breach to come to light at the birthplace of the atomic bomb, two congressmen said.

The breach was investigated by the National Nuclear Security Administration, which rounded up laptop computers from Los Alamos National Security LLC's board members and sanitized them.

But NNSA and lab officials who subsequently appeared before a congressional committee investigating security problems at the nuclear weapons lab never mentioned it, according to a letter the congressmen sent Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman.

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Reps. John Dingell, D-Mich., chairman of the House Committee on Energy and Commerce, and Bart Stupak, D-Mich., who heads the panel's oversight subcommittee, called that "unacceptable" and demanded an explanation.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/19247830/

[Richard Steele]

1. K&R- this certainly deserves a bit of attention! nm