Drug raid yields Los Alamos documents By LARA JAKES JORDAN, Associated Press Writer
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Authorities in northern New Mexico have stumbled onto what appears to be classified information from Los Alamos National Laboratory while arresting a man suspected of domestic violence and dealing methamphetamine from his mobile home.

Sgt. Chuck Ney of the Los Alamos Police Department said the information was discovered during a search last Friday of the man's records for evidence of his drug business.

Police alerted the FBI to the secret documents, which agents traced back to a woman linked to the drug dealer, officials said. The woman is a contract employee at Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to an FBI official who spoke on condition of anonymity because of the sensitive nature of the case.

The official would not describe the documents except to say that they appeared to contain classified material and were stored on a computer file.

FBI special agent Bill Elwell in Albuquerque confirmed that a search warrant was executed on Friday night, but he refused to discuss details.

"We do have an investigation with regard to the matter, but our standard is we do not discuss pending investigations," Elwell said.

A lab spokesman declined to comment.

Los Alamos has a history of high-profile security problems in the past decade, with the most notable the case of nuclear scientist Wen Ho Lee. After years of accusations, Lee pleaded guilty in a plea bargain to one count of mishandling nuclear secrets at the lab.

In 2004, the lab was essentially shut down after an inventory showed that two computer disks containing nuclear secrets were missing. A year later the lab concluded that it was just a mistake and the disks never existed.

But the incident highlighted sloppy inventory control and security failures at the nuclear weapons lab. And the Energy Department began moving toward a five-year program to create a so-called diskless environment at Los Alamos to prevent any classified material being carried outside the lab.

Even though Los Alamos is now under new management, Danielle Brian, executive director of the watchdog group Project on Government Oversight said the lab has not done much to clean up its act.

"Los Alamos has always seemed to be rewarded for its screw-ups," Brian said. "We're waiting with baited breath to see if anything has changed."

The idea that police found classified documents at a home where a drug sting was being conducted is disturbing, she said.

"The problem is when you actually have those materials that are supposed to be protected inside the lab and you find them outside the lab in the hands of criminals — that should worry everybody," Brian said.

The FBI and the U.S. attorney's office in Albuquerque were "evaluating the information obtained as a result of the search warrant," Elwell said.

The federal charge of unauthorized removal and retention of classified material is a misdemeanor that carries a maximum sentence of a year in prison and up to a $100,000 fine.

"My country tis of thee,got NO security,its gone to SHIT...
Methheads stealing secrets,Iran blows someone to bits
but let freedom ring? I say torture...oops, interrogate them to be sure no copied data was sold.Then shoot em for treason! TCBS BC

A little learning, indeed, may be a dangerous thing, but the want of learning is a calamity to any people.

Find out just what any people will quietly submit to and you have the exact measure of the injustice and wrong which will be imposed on them.

I prayed for twenty years but received no answer until I prayed with my legs.

I prefer to be true to myself, even at the hazard of incurring the ridicule of others, rather than to be false, and to incur my own abhorrence.

If there is no struggle, there is no progress. Those who profess to favor freedom, and deprecate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground, they want rain without thunder and lightning.

It is not light that we need, but fire; it is not the gentle shower, but thunder. We need the storm, the whirlwind, and the earthquake.

One and God make a majority.

Power concedes nothing without a demand. It never did and it never will.

The life of the nation is secure only while the nation is honest, truthful, and virtuous.

The soul that is within me no man can degrade.

The thing worse than rebellion is the thing that causes rebellion.

Those who profess to favor freedom, and yet depreciate agitation, are men who want crops without plowing up the ground.

When men sow the wind it is rational to expect that they will reap the whirlwind.

Where justice is denied, where poverty is enforced, where ignorance prevails, and where any one class is made to feel that society is an organized conspiracy to oppress, rob and degrade them, neither persons nor property will be safe.

Without a struggle, there can be no progress.

Words of the man that debated so eloquently and vociferously against the inhumaity of slavery...one of my childhood icons...TCBS BC

Enron's Skilling Gets 24 Years
10/23/2006 4:02 PM EDT
URL: http://www.thestreet.com/newsanalysis/energy/10316862.html

Jeff Skilling is headed for a long time behind bars.

The former Enron chief, once feted as king of the business world, became the latest luminary of the now-defunct energy giant to head for jail. Skilling was sentenced Monday to 24 years in federal prison, after a hearing in which he claimed innocence and victims of the Enron fraud expressed their outrage.

Skilling was convicted this past spring of fraud and conspiracy in the collapse of the once-mighty energy trader. Enron went bankrupt in December 2001, a mere three months after Skilling relinquished his CEO post. Earlier in 2001, the stock market -- wowed by Skilling's slick salesmanship and the company's supposedly pathbreaking "asset-lite" strategy -- had valued Enron north of $60 billion.

Enron's stunning and swift disintegration ruined thousands of shareholders and employees, many of whose retirement funds were sunk irretrievably into the company's once-highflying shares. The company's collapse raised questions about the nation's business ethics and accounting standards and was the driving force behind the subsequent passage of the little-loved Sarbanes-Oxley Act of 2002.

Back on May 25, Skilling was convicted of one count of conspiracy, 12 counts of securities fraud, five counts of making false statements and one count of insider trading. Nine other insider trading charges ended in acquittal.

Skilling's former boss, onetime Enron chief Ken Lay, was also convicted that day. But Lay's sentence was vacated last week because he died in July, before his appeal could be heard.

More than a dozen other Enron figures have pleaded guilty in the company's collapse. Several testified against Lay and Skilling during this year's trial, including former CFO Andrew Fastow and former treasurer Ben Glisan.

The key witness against Skilling and Lay was Fastow, the reputed mastermind of the accounting fraud. Fastow has pleaded guilty to securities fraud charges and was sentenced last month to a six-year prison term. Fastow engineered the infamous LJM partnerships that were the centerpiece of Enron's scheme to hide billions of dollars of debt in off-balance-sheet entities.

Prosecutors painted Skilling as a participant in Fastow's schemes and Lay as someone willing to both conceal and profit from the illegal tactics.

Jurors in the trial spent 56 days listening to evidence and testimony from Justice Department lawyers working on a special Enron task force and the defendants' own high-powered legal team. In the trial, prosecutors painted Enron as a hyper-aggressive company whose rapid rise during the 1990s led to cracks in its finances that its executives chose illegal means to fix.

Lay and Skilling denied wrongdoing in the scandal, which put tens of thousands of people out of work and cost many employees their life savings. Billions of dollars of market capitalization was erased by the insolvency.

Skilling reasserted his innocence in a Monday afternoon hearing in Houston before district Judge Sim Lake. Victims of the Enron fraud were to speak afterward, before sentencing took place.

"In terms of remorse, I cannot imagine more remorse," Skilling said, according to media reports. "All that being said, I'm innocent of every one of these charges."

Skilling, who at one time was the youngest partner in the history of the prestigious McKinsey consultancy, had made similar comments immediately after the verdict.

"We fought the good fight, and some things work and some things don't," he said back in May. "We're going to have to go back and think this thing through. Obviously I'm disappointed, but that's the way the system works."
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Have you ever wondered why these theiving cretins hang around to get tried and do huge time?Flee, rotten asshole, flee with the ill gotten gains!Do 24 years for the sake of what? pride? LMFAO, what does lots of money do, make you a retard?Beats me,but yes, I would flee to Rio-by-the-Sea-o...hehe TCBS BC

Obedient driver follows orders, crashes car
Mon Oct 23, 2006 9:33 AM ET
BERLIN (Reuters) - A German motorist followed the command "Turn right now!" from his navigation system and crashed into a small toilet hut by the side of the road -- about 30 yards before the crossing he was meant to take.

The overly obedient 53-year-old from Freiburg drove his sport utility vehicle off the road onto into a building site, up a stairway and into the small toilet shack, police in the eastern town of Rudolstadt said Sunday.

It caused 2,000 euros ($2,500) worth of damage to the stairway, 100 euros damage to his car, and he was also fined 35 euros.

Earlier this month an 80-year-old motorist also chose to follow his navigation system and ignored a "closed for construction" sign on a Hamburg motorway. He then crashed into a pile of sand but neither he nor his passenger were injured.

and if a GPS can give a German orders, no wonder Hitler was such a big hit! lmao...DOH!!!! TCBS BC

Can't you see I'm easily bothered by persistence
One step from lashing out at you...
You want in to get under my skin
And call yourself a friend
I've got more friends like you
What do I do?

(Pre) Is there no standard anymore?
What it takes, who I am, where I've been
Belong
You can't be something you're not
Be yourself, by yourself
Stay away from me
A lesson learned in life
Known from the dawn of time

(Chorus) Respect, walk

Run your mouth when I'm not around
It's easy to achieve
You cry to weak friends that sympathize
Can you hear the violins playing you song?
Those same friends tell me your every word

(Pre)

(Chorus)

Are you talking to me?
No way punk

TCBS BC