U.S. Nuke Security Chief Sacked

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From: "Brock N. Meeks" <[email protected]>
Date: January 5, 2007 9:22:56 AM EST
To: [email protected]
Subject: U.S. Nuke Security Chief Sacked


 From the Associated Press:

WASHINGTON - Tens of millions of dollars and repeated security reviews
haven=92t stopped embarrassing security breakdowns in the government=92s=20=
=20
nuclear
weapons program =97 and now the man in charge has been sent packing.

Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman on Thursday ousted the head of the=20=20
National
Nuclear Security Administration, which maintains the nuclear weapons
stockpile and oversees the nation=92s weapons research laboratories.

=93I have decided it is time for new leadership at the NNSA,=94 Bodman=20=
=20
said in
announcing that the agency=92s chief, Linton Brooks, would resign=20=20
within the
month.

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http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/16474886/




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