Good grief. In the big book of “how not to run a security operation”, Los Alamos takes the prize and a full chapter all to its own.
From MSNBC:
The Energy Department proposed $3.3 million in fines Friday against managers of the Los Alamos nuclear weapons lab because of a security breakdown in which classified documents were found in a trailer-park drug raid.
The civil penalties, the bulk of them levied against the University of California, the longtime former manager of the lab, were the largest such fines the department has ever imposed.
The enforcement action stems from an incident in October 2006, when police found more than 1,000 pages of classified documents and several computer storage devices in a trailer occupied by a former worker at the lab.
The discovery was found during a police drug raid that focused on another person living in the trailer.
It is really remarkable the never ending cavalcade of “whoops” moments that Los Alamos has endured.
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