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Fake Documents Got Workers Into Nuke Plant
via DrudgeKNOXVILLE, Tenn. -- 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 Monday. I'd like to know where these people are from. Just about every time they don't say where they are from they turn out to be from someplace where Allan is popular. Controls at the Y-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. "And no US warhead technology ever made it into the hands of the Chinese either." However, the DOE inspector general's office said in the report issued Monday that its field agents found "official use only" documents "lying unprotected in a construction trailer which was accessed by the foreign construction workers" at the plant. Nice. "Thus, these individuals were afforded opportunities to access ... (this) information," the inspector general wrote. "We concluded that this situation represented a potentially serious access control and security problem." Ya think? Jeez, our government at work. The report, initiated by a tip in 2004, said the workers had fake green cards that certified them to work in the United States. Their cases were turned over to the Immigration and Customs Enforcement agency for deportation. I'm sure the hearing will held within the next four years. Gotta let the ALCU prepare their defense first. In response to the foreign workers intrusion at the plant, visitors now must provide passports or birth certificates along with other background information. I wonder if that Mexican Consulate card will suffice. The inspector general said it was particularly concerned about allowing subcontractors to self-certify the citizenship of their employees, and that the Office of Counterintelligence didn't know foreign constructions workers were at the Y-12 site until it was notified by the inspector general's office. Since it doesn't seem to matter much who's a citizen and who's not anymore, I'm surprised they bothered. Sheesh. My father works at K-25, just down the road. I asked if he knows more about this. I'll update if he has anything. Posted by: Laurence of the Rats 2005-06-20 |
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