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Letter to DOE Deputy Secretary McSlarrow, Chairman Barton and
Representative DeGette concerning media-less security at Los
Alamos National Laboratory  Deputy Secretary Kyle McSlarrow VIA
Fax: (202) 586-7169  Chairman Joe Barton VIA Fax: (202) 225-1919
Representative Diana DeGette VIA Fax: (303) 844-4996  Deputy
Secretary McSlarrow, Chairman Barton, Representative DeGette:
As you prepare for your trip to Los Alamos, we wanted to provide
you with some relevant background. Attached is the section of
POGO's 2001 report that deals with the dangers of theft of
nuclear secrets caused by loss of computer media. As you may
know, the solution to this longstanding problem - to go "media-
less" - has been discussed, but not implemented for years. When
NNSA Administrator Brooks was asked at this week's House Energy
and Commerce hearing why a media-less system had not been
implemented in 2000, he said he didn't know. The fact is, it was
NNSA's objections (before A