Free Enterprise

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25 (AP) — The authorities in northern New Mexico have stumbled onto what appears to be classified information from Los Alamos National Laboratory while arresting a man suspected of domestic violence and dealing methamphetamine from his mobile home.

Sgt. Chuck Ney of the Los Alamos Police Department said the information was found last Friday during a search of the man’s records for evidence of a drug business.

The police alerted the Federal Bureau of Investigation to the secret documents, which agents traced back to a woman linked to the man suspected of drug dealing, officials said. The woman is a contract employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, said an F.B.I. official who spoke on condition of anonymity.

The official would say only that the documents appeared to contain classified material and were stored on a computer file...

Los Alamos, where they design build your new nukes- or Dear Leader's at any rate- has recently been taken over by Bechtel.

Aside from being the Carlyle Group's and the bin Laden family's multinational energy firm of choice, or maybe because of it, Bechtel's had more than its share of scandals.

Whatever private contractor was involved, this was serious.

...According to unconfirmed sources, the information was classified as Secret Restricted Data which means it would involve nuclear weapons data and may have concerned detection of underground nuclear weapons testing. Also unconfirmed, the person in possession of the information worked either in Technical Area 55 where all of the Lab’s plutonium is stored or in the X Division which handles nuclear weapons design data for a maintenance subcontractor of the Lab...

Why worry about Iran getting nuclear weapons from North Korea? Bechtel, who after all handles a lot of Iraq action anyway, probably can supply them with the best plutonium money can buy, and the plans to use it, too.