Nuclear Plant Breached, Report Says

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Sixteen foreign-born construction workers with phony immigration documents were able to enter a nuclear weapons plant in eastern Tennessee because of lax security controls, a federal report said yesterday.

12 weapons plant have since been tightened, and there was no evidence the workers had access to any sensitive documents, said the National Nuclear Security Administration, which oversees nuclear weapons facilities for the Department of Energy.

More (http://www.boston.com/news/nation/articles/2005/06/21/nuclear_plant_breach ed_report_says/)


THIS SHEDS A NEW LIGHT ON ILLEGAL IMMIGRATION, DOESN'T IT?

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<table border="0" align="center" width="95%" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0"><tr class="standard"><td>Quote </td></tr><tr class="standard"><td class="QUOTE">The inspector general's office said that it was particularly concerned about allowing subcontractors to self-certify the citizenship of their employees and that the Office of Counterintelligence did not know foreign construction workers were at the Y-12 site until it was notified by the inspector general's office.[/QUOTE]

Ooops!

[CatsMom]

This is frightening but not really surprising. WHEN there is another terrorist attack in the US, I can hear Congress now wanting to know who knew what and when and pointing their finger at everone except the person they see in the mirror each morning.