[Congressional Record Volume 146, Number 80 (Thursday, June 22, 2000)]
[House]
[Page H5033]
From the Congressional Record Online through the Government Publishing Office [www.gpo.gov]




               EMPTY PROMISES FOR SECURITY 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. Mr. Speaker, here we go again.
  It seems that the more we learn about the security and disasters at 
the Los Alamos Nuclear Laboratory, the worse it gets.
  The FBI now believes that the hard drives disappeared on March 28, 
more than a month before they were reported missing. Furthermore, the 
two nuclear emergency safety team members who discovered a security 
breach failed to tell their superiors that the hard drives were even 
missing and, knowing of the gravity of the situation, simply launched 
their own personal search.
  Mr. Speaker, it seems clear that the pledges of increased security 
made a year ago by the Department of Energy Secretary were only empty 
promises.
  So why should the American people believe Secretary Richardson now 
when he asserts that there is no evidence of espionage? I suggest, 
conversely, that there is also no evidence that there was not espionage 
involved.

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  A change needs to occur and it needs to occur before all our national 
secrets are stolen, compromised or paraded out the door of our nuclear 
laboratories.

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