I say shut 'em down for good. Anyone who chooses to work in one of these places is no better than a terrorist as far as I am concerned. They are draining our resources for no other purpose than to enrich their masters and frighten the rest of us into compliance. They are committing crimes against humanity and history will judge them (and us) as monsters.
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AP , WASHINGTON
Sunday, Jul 25, 2004,Page 1
The US Department of Energy (DOE), responding to a security scandal at the Los Alamos weapons lab, ordered a halt to classified work at as many as two dozen facilities that use removable computer disks like those missing at the New Mexico lab.
Energy Secretary Spencer Abraham said on Friday that the "stand-down" at DOE operations that use the disks, containing classified material involving nuclear weapons research, was needed to get better control over the devices.
The disks, known as "controlled removable electronic media" or CREM, have been at the heart of an uproar over lax security at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, where work has been stopped as scientists search for two of the disks reported missing on July 7.
Fifteen workers have been suspended, including 11 who had access to a safe where the disks were stored. Officials believed they had been accounted for in an April inventory, but that also is being questions because of possible irregularities in that audit.
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