[Congressional Record (Bound Edition), Volume 155 (2009), Part 10]
[House]
[Page 13844]
[From the U.S. Government Publishing Office, www.gpo.gov]




                   CONFIDENTIAL DOCUMENT MADE PUBLIC

  (Mr. BURTON of Indiana asked and was given permission to address the 
House for 1 minute and to revise and extend his remarks.)
  Mr. BURTON of Indiana. Mr. Speaker, it was reported today in the New 
York Times that the Federal Government mistakenly made public a 266-
page report marked ``highly confidential,'' and it gives detailed 
information about hundreds of the Nation's civilian nuclear sites and 
programs, including maps that show the precise locations of stockpiles 
of fuel for nuclear weapons.
  Can you believe that? A confidential document that is supposed to be 
kept secret was publicized, and every terrorist in the world now knows 
exactly where our nuclear supplies are stored and maps showing where, 
in detail, these nuclear supplies are stored.
  Now, hopefully, they're very secure and there's a lot of guards 
around there to protect us. But I think it's tragic that top secret 
information, highly classified information, is being made public at a 
time when we're fighting a war against terrorism.
  It makes absolutely no sense. And those who are responsible for 
making this public should be held accountable.

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