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http://voices.washingtonpost.com/government-inc/2009/04/more_insecurity_at_nuke_lab.html By Robert O'Harrow Government Inc. The Washington Post April 15, 2009 The Government Accountability Office is taking aim at continuing problems with security at Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory, a significant proportion of which is provided by contractors. The place has been bedeviled by questions about breaches in recent years, some of them really over the top. One year ago, a government commando team intent on testing the facility's defense quickly overcame security forces. Here's what Time magazine had to say at the time: "The exercise highlighted a number of serious security shortcomings at Livermore, sources say, including the failure of a hydraulic system essential to operating an extremely lethal Gatling gun that protects the facility. Experts contacted by TIME -- including congressional staff from both parties informed of the episode, and experts personally familiar with safeguards at Livermore -- all said that the test amounts to an embarrassment to those responsible for securing the nation's nuclear facilities, and that it required immediate steps to correct what some called the most dangerous security weaknesses ever found at the lab." Since then, the lab has promised an array of initiatives to fix the problems. But there are not enough measures in place to ensure those efforts are successful, according to a Government Accountability Office review. [...] _______________________________________________ Best Selling Security Books and More! http://www.shopinfosecnews.org/

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