[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 77 (Monday, June 19, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H4596]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




                     SECURITY FAILURE AT LOS ALAMOS

  (Mr. GIBBONS asked and was given permission to address the House for 
1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. GIBBONS. Madam Speaker, once again, our national security has 
been endangered by the incompetence of the Department of Energy. It 
seems that the DOE cannot keep track of our Nation's most sensitive and 
top-secret information.
  After nuclear weapons information was stolen last year from the Los 
Alamos lab, the American people were promised, they were promised that 
the lab security would be enhanced and such a security breach would 
never again occur.
  Well that was 1999, Madam Speaker. So much for the Clinton-Gore 
administration promises.
  It seems that the enhanced security did not take into consideration 
the human element. The human element is not one's pet dog.
  Perhaps the DOE thought that the potential threat aliens from Mars 
posed to our national security needed to be addressed before ensuring 
that our top-secret information was secure from real-life human beings.
  It is time that this administration wake up and make our national 
security a top priority.
  I yield back the administration's so-called security policies which 
fail to protect our Nation's secrets.

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