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CBS News Exclusive: Young Archiver Downloaded Weapons Secrets To Thumb Drives
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- SharnCedar
I often agree with you, but I question some of your specifics here. The whole lapton thing reeks of incompetence at every level. In this case the incompetence rises to investigators being unable to ask a subject important questions because her clearance is higher. Don%u2019t ask, don%u2019t tell makes more sense than can%u2019t ask, can%u2019t tell. These Nu-Ku-Lar secrets were described as data from underground tests. Those years' worth of tests tell what works and what doesn%u2019t and how to make a weapon smaller. We want to keep any crude weapons as bulky as possible, so they are harder to conceal. Anyone wanting a bomb would have answers questions they don%u2019t even know to ask, yet.
The USB drives WERE found in a raid at her home where there was sufficient probable cause for drug activity to get a search warrant, albeit by a roommate. I haven't heard anyone claim that the drives and their data weren't found there. Did she copy and remove data about deactivating locks on weapons? We don%u2019t want to get blown to hell with our bomb with its locks deactivated. Were her actions innocuous? I don%u2019t know, but these answers are important. The basic physics of nuclear weaponry are simple, but details of construction matter. An incorrectly configured implosion can change an atomic blast into a dirty bomb, bad enough but less so. - Reply to this comment
DUH!
'Nuff said.- Reply to this comment
- Our tax dollars at work. . .
We spend billions taking down the government of a sovereign nation on the premise that they possessed "weapons of mass destruction" only to have state secrets literally walk out the door on our own shores. The "war on terror" begins at home, folks, not in a Middle-Eastern desert. We need to sew up the holes in our own security fabric. - Reply to this comment
- I hope there are plans to charge Jessica as a spy. Even if security was lax -- she betrayed the trust placed in her when she was hired. Life in prison might deter other from following her act - even if they could.
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- They've been out to get Los Alamos for years. Remember the fake "security scandal" involving the missing laptop, which was later found not to be missing?
It would be refreshing to live in a sane nation, in which security was judged by the nature of the risks, not by hysteria.
Imagine that, a nation full of sane people. Sounds very romantic and impossible, doesn't it. Instead I live in the nation that pumps 50 bullets into unarmed kids because they "might" pose a risk to someone.
What exactly were these nuclear secrets, or is this like the missing laptop incident, just another big lie. Probably the "nuclear secrets" were just some spreadsheet with the dates of changing toliet paper rolls or something like that.
What exactly are "nuclear secrets" in today's day and age? I thought just about anyone knows how to build an atomic bomb, the mechanism is simple, it is the complex steps such as purifying the uranium or something that is difficult.
is there some new type of nuclear weapon, other than the atom bomb. Or is this nonsense as usual from the insane nation. - Reply to this comment
- Found on a drug raid with her room mate in their trailer! what kind of people do our government trust the nations classified documents with? Maybe down the pants of Mark Foley next. *** and get it boys!
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- There is no security there. The white house leaks classified documents just to influence a news spin! so what is wrong with this? why should we expect more?
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- What was she planning on doing with this information, and why did she take it? Drug raid on her roommate; So she has seedy friends too? What happened to the background checks? How does she get a clearance level higher than the FBI, with a druggy rommate.
Something is not right here. This needs to be fixed. - Reply to this comment
- Security releys on credibilty. How credible can an 18 y.o. person's history be? I wouldn't think there would be enough history to make such a judgement.
Apparently the problem goes much higher in it's administration! - Reply to this comment
- Why not require them to wear a clean suit or something of that nature? Use the screening that they are suggesting for airports, and definitely disable the flash drive capability.
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