Word: labs
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...Resident Assistant's room, not realizing that it was her RA, Ryan "Stack" Clark, whose body had been blocking the door of 4040. With Clark not in his room, Donohue made an odd decision. She went back to her room, got dressed for class, grabbed her lab manual for Chemistry, and went to meet her boyfriend for breakfast...
...written pledge to submit to drug testing, she received a clearance to handle some of America's most sensitive secrets. Despite the pledge, follow-up drug tests were "never performed," a government document says, even as Quintana proceeded to commit multiple security violations with little supervision from the lab's security administrators...
...taking [the security breach] very seriously," said a spokesman for the Energy Department, which controls the lab, soon after the incident was made public. He added that Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman "was personally disturbed" by the matter. As well he ought to have been: New details obtained by TIME offer an even more disturbing picture of security at the nation's nuclear inner sanctum than the one outlined last year in a no-nonsense investigation by the Department's Inspector General. In fact, according to government documents, the woman who made off with the weapons designs was herself engaged...
...around roughly half the time, because that person had "other duties." Quintana's lawyer, Stephen Aaron, told TIME that, on occasion, she would be locked into a secure vault to work until colleagues returned. "We hope that the lessons learned from this episode can be used to make the Lab more secure in the future," he added...
...task force report and reviewed the results of a DOE inspector general investigation, but in January fired the department's top official in charge of nuclear security in response to the latest Los Alamos and earlier incidents. As Bodman put it: "Unauthorized removal of the classified material from the Lab marks a significant breach of security protocol and of the public trust. Unfortunately, we cannot correct the errors of the past. But we will learn from this incident and we will do better...