Meth and nukes? Sounds like a heck of a Saturday night.
Los Alamos Country police, on what they thought was a routine domestic disturbance call at a local trailer park, found a rudimentary crystal-meth lab and three flash drives containing more than 400 pages of classified documents from Los Alamos National Labs. Four hundred pages. “Potentially the greatest breach of national security” in decades, is how one ...
Los Alamos Country police, on what they thought was a routine domestic disturbance call at a local trailer park, found a rudimentary crystal-meth lab and three flash drives containing more than 400 pages of classified documents from Los Alamos National Labs. Four hundred pages.
“Potentially the greatest breach of national security” in decades, is how one official described it. That would probably be true if the U.S. government wasn’t already publishing documents that explain how to build nuclear weapons on the Internet.
Honestly, given that the current administration is so cagey about security that Attorney General Alberto Gonzales has threatened to prosecute journalists for revealing classified information, top secret nuclear documents are appearing in a lot of strange places.
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