CREM de Meth

The Los Alamos County Police Department is holding a press conference right now (3:45 p.m. EST) on the meth lab drug raid which surfaced Classified Removable Electronic Media (CREM). Here are the documents from the arrest (pdf) which they provided today. Also here a list of seized items (pdf) including three jumpdrives and a CD.

A new unconfirmed tip just in: The A woman involved in the incident allegedly worked in the Dynamic Experimentation Division (DX) in a Special Access Program (SAP). She has Q level security clearance, meaning for nuke weapons info. She went through the Human Reliability Program which is used to clear people and may have been randomly drug tested. The man apparently is the one who works for KSL.  UPDATE: The man is not an employee for KSL we now understand, and there seem to be two women involved in the situation.  One is Jessica Quintana, a woman in her early 20s who has lived in the trailer where Justin Stone was arrested in the drug raid.  According to the Los Alamos Monitor, "Reports also indicate that Quintana was employed as a data entry clerk at Information Assets Management, a LANL subcontractor, before being laid off."  The other woman, according to our unconfirmed sources, is the older scientist referred to at the top of the paragraph.

UPDATE: Here's a statement from National Nuclear Security Administration head Linton Brooks.

NNSA NEWS
National Nuclear Security Administration
U.S. Department of Energy
For Immediate Release
October 25, 2006
Contact:  NNSA Public Affairs, (202) 586-7371

Statement from Administrator Brooks on Los Alamos

       WASHINGTON, D.C. - NNSA Administrator Linton F. Brooks issued the following statement today on security at Los Alamos National Laboratory:

"Security is the primary concern at NNSA.  NNSA and the Department of Energy have made extraordinary efforts in the last three years to put strong security procedures in place at Los Alamos and other national laboratories to ensure that sensitive information is not compromised. Our job now is to assess what happened at Los Alamos, to determine whether procedures have been diligently observed, and to decide whether additional steps need to be taken.   I have directed NNSA's chief of defense nuclear security to personally investigate the facts at Los Alamos and I have sent a headquarters cyber security team to ensure that there is full compliance with current departmental directives.  As Secretary Bodman noted earlier today, we expect the new contractor at Los Alamos to resolve quickly any continuing security concerns."

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Comments

The big question is, why hasn't Linton Brooks been asked to step down from his post over the many security breaches at Los Alamos ove the last several years?

You have errors on this page. There is a sentence crossed out and then contradictory information. This leads me to believe there might be more. This story is very important and you need to get the information correct before you put it on a blog.