Richardson said Sunday there is no evidence two computer drives with nuclear secrets ever left the Los Alamos lab or that espionage was involved in their disappearance. Richardson and other officials tried to shift the blame to the University of California, which conducts research at Los Alamos and other labs under contract to the Energy Department. They are very strong on science. They are a great institution. Energy secretary 'outraged' The drives were discovered missing May 7, but the Department of Energy was not notified of their absence until June 1, almost four weeks later.
Regulations call for the department to be notified within eight hours.
The drives are being analyzed by the FBI to determine if they were tampered with and whether they are authentic, authorities have said. Officials said the hard drives were being sent to Washington on Sunday. It's incomprehensible what happened. I'm going to take action. I'm going to get to the bottom of this.