Yes, Bill Richardson knows how to scare people. In the Pacific Northwest, the Seattle Times also targets the Energy Secretary. Bill Richardson is taking a pounding in Congress over the latest security debacle at the Los Alamos weapons lab. The department is incapable of stopping the theft and exploitation of secrets related to development, testing and maintenance of America's nuclear arsenal. Inventory, control and audit systems are a joke to the Ph.Ds in the lab.
Taxpayers ought to be enraged.
Security lapses represent genuine threats to national security. Secrets are in circulation that could do the nation harm. It doesn't take a rocket scientist to know that something has gone dreadfully wrong with security in the most sensitive areas of our government. Espionage and terrorism remain constant threats. May we never find out how lethal such incompetence can prove.