Team Obama 'nuclear security'
Lucky for Planet Earth, it was just 3 hippy refugees from the 1960s.
http://www.reuters.com/article/2012/08/02/us-usa-securtity-nuclear-idUSB...
U.S. nuclear bomb facility shut after security breach
By Mark Hosenball Reuters WASHINGTON | Thu Aug 2, 2012 6:50pm EDT
Three activists cut through perimeter fences to reach the outer wall of a building where highly enriched uranium, a key nuclear bomb component, is stored. The activists painted slogans and threw what they said was human blood on the wall of the facility, one of numerous buildings in the facility known by the code name Y-12 that it was given during World War Two, officials said.
The activists passed through four fences and walked for "over two hours" before reaching the uranium storage building, on which they hung banners and strung crime-scene tape.
Ralph Hutchinson, coordinator for the Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance, said the group's intention was not to demonstrate the lack of security at the plant, but to take a stance against the making of nuclear weapons. "It wasn't so they could show how easy it was to bust into this bomb plant, it was because the production of nuclear weapons violates everything that is moral and good," Hutchinson said. "It is a war crime."
The security failure was an embarrassment both for the security firm and for the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, the Energy Department branch that operates U.S. nuclear weapons plants. "It was obviously a pretty serious incident," NNSA spokesman Joshua McConaha told Reuters.
The activists cut through two chain-link fences surrounding the sprawling facility and a third fence surrounding the ultra-secure enriched uranium stockpile building, known as the "Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility."
Peter Stockton, a former congressional investigator and security consultant to the Energy Department, expressed skepticism at government assertions the nuclear material was not at risk. "It is unbelievable this could happen," Stockton said. "The significance is outrageous. If they were terrorists, they could have blown open the door and got inside." The security breach was the "worst we've ever seen."
(Additional reporting by Mary Wisniewski in Chicago and Preston Peeden in Knoxville, Tennessee; Editing by David Storey and Peter Cooney)
None whatsoever!
Team Obama ‘Nuclear Security’
The Strategic Drug Stockpile is ‘Gone, Without a Trace’.
An 82 Y/O NUN breached the ORNL atomic weapon ‘Inner Sanctum’.
Lying about Fukushima Daiichi Danger Level
Running to South America
MOX Fuel ‘Reactor Upgrades’
20 Year Extensions for GE MARK-1
NO Radionuclide Storm Public Service Announcement (PSA)
Food Source and Food Contamination Tests hidden from public
Team Obama constitutes a ‘Clear and Present DANGER’, to the lives, health and National Security of these (arguably) United States. Team Obama ‘Nuclear Security’ is NO Security at ALL!
None whatsoever!
WTF
So, pardon my French, but
WTF HAPPENED to the 'Strategic Drug Stockpile'?
Where in Gawd's Name did ALL the Anti-Radiation Drugs go?
"Curious minds want to know."
WTF
Missing Anti-Radiation Drug DISASTER
Where, PRECISELY did the DRUGS go?
Whose neck goes on the chopping block for the MISSING Strategic (anti-radiation) Drug Stockpile?
Quasi-POTUS, Barack Hussein Obama and/or his two predecessors, Presidents George Walker Bush & William Jefferson Clinton
Quasi-Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano and/or her two predecessors, Michael Chertoff & Tom Ridge
Quasi-Federal Emergency Management Agency Director Craig Fugate and/or his two predecessors, R. David Paulison & Michael D. Brown
Speaker of the House, John Andrew Boehner and/or his two predecessors Speaker Nancy D'Alesandro Pelosi & Speaker John Dennis Hastert
*Quasi, a term for appointees of an Article II unqualified (Kenya Native) Whitehouse Resident.
Spit it out, where PRECISELY did the DRUGS go?
A huge embarrassment for Obama
Nun makes major nuclear breach
Sister Megan Rice, 82, a Roman Catholic nun of the Society of the Holy Child Jesus, and two male accomplices have carried out what nuclear specialists call the biggest security breach in the history of the nation’s atomic complex, making their way to the inner sanctum of the site where the United States keeps crucial nuclear bomb parts and fuel.
With flashlights and bolt cutters, the three pacifists defied barbed wire as well as armed guards, video cameras, and motion sensors at the Oak Ridge nuclear reservation in Tennessee early on July 28. They splashed blood on the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility — a new, half-billion-dollar plant encircled by enormous guard towers — and hung banners outside its walls.
The actions of Rice, a New York native who grew up in Morningside Heights, and her cohorts are a huge embarrassment for President Obama. Since 2010, he has led a global campaign to eliminate or lock down nuclear materials as a way to fight atomic terrorism.
Rice went to Catholic schools in New York, became a nun at 18, and received degrees in biology from Villanova and Boston College, where her studies included class work at Harvard Medical School on how to use radioactive tracers. From 1962 to 2004, with occasional breaks, she served her order as a teacher in Nigeria and Ghana.
http://articles.boston.com/2012-08-11/nation/33137088_1_nuclear-arms-nuc...
Boston Globe, August 11, 2012
Meet the U. S. Attorney
Meet the U. S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee; who is apparently, as stupid as a gawdamn goat.
dep•re•da•tion/Noun: An act of attacking or plundering.
Synonyms: pillage - rapine - robbery - ravage - despoilment - havoc
http://www.justice.gov/usao/tne/meetattorney.html
William C. "Bill" Killian is the U.S. Attorney for the Eastern District of Tennessee. Mr. Killian is responsible for representing the legal interest of the United States and prosecuting federal criminal violations throughout the district's 41 counties, which extend from Johnson County in northeastern Tennessee to Lincoln County in the middle of the state.
The Eastern District is the largest federal district in Tennessee and serves approximately 2.6 million citizens. Prior to being sworn in as U.S. Attorney on October 4, 2010, Killian was a sole practitioner in his law firm in Jasper, Tennessee, since 1979. He served as the City Attorney for the Town of Monteagle, Tennessee, for a total of 21 years.
U.S. Attorney Killian graduated from the University of Tennessee School of Law in 1974, after receiving a B.S. degree from the University of Tennessee at Knoxville. He was admitted to the Tennessee Bar in April 1975. From 1976 through 1979, he was employed as an Assistant District Attorney with the Twelfth Judicial District, serving seven counties in southeast Tennessee and returned to this position part-time from 1988 through 1990. Through the years he has held various teaching positions with colleges in east Tennessee as well as the University of Tennessee College of Law. He served in the U.S. Army, Tennessee National Guard from December 1970 through January 1973.
Shooting the Messenger
Shooting the Messenger
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/08/protesters-seek-delay-in-feder....
The three defendants face potential penalties of up to 16 years in jail and $600,000 in fines.
Separately, the ‘Dutch Boy Who Saved Holland’ will be eligible for parole in 2019.
http://www.geheugenvannederland.nl/hgvn/webroot/files/File/extra/atlanti...
We are told only that he is about eight years old, that his father is a lockmaster and that the family lives near Haarlem. One day our anonymous hero discovers a leak in the dyke. The dyke is about to burst any moment. The little boy doesn't think twice but sticks his finger in the hole. The water stops flowing. There he is, with nobody around to help the little hero. Evening comes and then night falls. It gets colder and colder. Apparently nobody in his family thinks of going to look for the little fellow. The result is that the child, numb with cold, is not found until morning, by the vicar. Now his father and the authorities quickly take action and all ends well.
The story of the little Dutch boy who saved Holland by sticking his finger in the dyke is famous all over the world . Mary Mapes Dodge (1831 - 1905), an American author of children's books, wrote the story around 1865.
Fired, or ‘Fired For Effect’?
Fired, or ‘Fired Upon’?
This is intended to merely OUTLINE the SERIOUSNESS of the infractions committed by these so-called ’guards’. It is NOT intended to build an appropriate prosecution case. This is reportedly a WAR on Terror. So these events arguably occurred in a ‘time of war’. This is a ‘Hanging Offense’ and/or a ‘Shooting Offense’.
http://www.armystudyguide.com/content/army_board_study_guide_topics/mili...
913. Art. 113. Misbehavior of sentinel
Any sentinel or look-out who is found drunk or sleeping upon his post, or leaves it before he is regularly relieved, shall be punished, if the offense is committed in time of war, by death or such other punishment as a court-martial may direct, but if the offense is committed at any other time, by such punishment other than death as a court-martial may direct.
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http://www.loc.gov/rr/frd/Military_Law/pdf/Crim-Law-Deskbook_V-2.pdf
2. Offenses which are capital offenses in time of war.
a) Desertion. UCMJ art. 85.
b) Willful Disobedience of a Superior Commissioned Officer’s Order. UCMJ art. 90.
c) Misbehavior As A Sentinel. UCMJ art. 113.
d) Rape/Homicide. See R.C.M. 1004(c)(6).
http://www.fas.org/sgp/othergov/dod/gates-ucmj.pdf
Fired, or ‘Fired For Effect’?
‘Guards’ replaced after nuclear security breach
"Guards replaced after Tennessee nuclear security breach"
http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/sns-rt-us-usa-nuclear-securitybre8751...
The Energy Department said on Monday it was replacing guards and supervisors on duty 10 days ago when three peace activists, including an 82 year-old nun, breached perimeter fences at the principal U.S. facility for storing weapons-grade enriched uranium. The guards and supervisors work for WSI Oak Ridge, a subsidiary of the giant international private security contractor G4S, which was at the center of a dispute over security preparations at the London Olympic Games. A federal official at the U.S. Energy Department's Y-12 complex in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, had also been "temporarily re-assigned" pending the investigation, a government official said. The U.S. government both processes and stores enriched uranium at the Y-12 complex, which a senior official had previously touted as "the Fort Knox of uranium."
Joshua McConaha, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, the Energy Department branch responsible for designing and building U.S. nuclear weapons, told Reuters that the incident, which occurred during the night of July 27-28, was "not consistent with the level of professionalism and expertise we expect from our guard force." As a consequence, McConaha said, the agency "has taken steps to remove the leadership team and the guard forces on duty at the time, and to replace them with some of the best security experts from around our enterprise." He said NNSA and the Energy Department were "reviewing every aspect of our security posture and will apply the lessons learned from this incident across all of our sites and facilities."
WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Mark Hosenball Reuters 5:01 p.m. CDT, August 6, 2012, (Additional reporting by Preston Peeden in Tennessee. Editing by Warren Strobel and David Storey)
"reviewing every aspect of our security posture"
Sister of the Holy Child Jesus, gardener and a housepainter
Babcock & Wilcox faces a federal show cause order
Multiple investigations are under way to determine what went wrong with Y-12’s security systems and large protective force. Babcock & Wilcox, through different subsidiaries, manages and operates both nuclear sites under separate government contracts. B&W spokeswoman Aimee Mills declined to comment on the security breach or its role in the personnel changes at the Tennessee facility. A call to the Pantex Guard Union, which includes more than 450 guards, was not returned Tuesday.
Guards involved in the incident were suspended and three people on the plant’s security contractor team, WSI-Oak Ridge, were removed from their positions, including its general manager. Since the break-in, the NNSA has moved WSI-Oak Ridge to a subcontractor of B&W Y-12, the management contractor now in charge of security. B&W Y-12 also faces a show cause order from the federal government to explain why its management contract should not be terminated.
During the break-in, protesters Megan Rice, 82; Greg Boertje-Obed, 57; and Michael Walli, 63, smeared human blood and painted pacifist slogans on the facility before guards found them. The indictment against the three — a Roman Catholic nun with Sisters of the Holy Child Jesus, a gardener and a housepainter — includes charges of trespassing and malicious destruction of property.
“explain why its management contract should not be terminated”
http://m.amarillo.com/news/local-news/2012-08-14/break-stalls-bids-pantex
Tuesday, Aug 14, 2012
The protective force failed to react
Assigning blame for Y-12 security breach
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/08/assigning-the-blame-for-y-12-s....
In the Aug. 10 "show cause" notice to B&W Y-12, the National Nuclear Security Administration threatened to revoke the company's contract for managing the Oak Ridge nuclear weapons plant because of the July 28 security breach, the inadequate response and other issues identified since the break-in.
NNSA outlined its preliminary observations and also noted which contractor had responsibility for each. Here's what they said and who's being held accountable:
-- A high number of primary assessment cameras were inoperable at the time of the event, to include a camera located in the fence zone that was penetrated by the protestors. (B&W Y-12)
-- Despite receiving numerous alarms from the multi-layered sensor system in the fence line, the protective force failed to react to the protestors as they cut through the three fences. (G4S Government Solutions, Inc. d/b/a/ WSI-Oak Ridge)
-- After the continued presence of numerous sensor alarms caused the protective force to respond with a vehicle patrol, it took excessive time for the patrol to arrive on scene. (G4S Government Solutions Inc., d/b/a/WSI-Oak Ridge)
-- Once they arrived on the scene the protective force failed to take appropriate steps to take control of the situation, a responding supervisor finally took control and removed the protestors. (G4S Government Solutions)
-- The plans and procedures for responding to multiple alarms from the same zone were inadequate. (B&W and G4S)
-- Adequate compensatory measures were not put in place to cover the inoperable cameras and unnecessarily delayed the repair/replacement of the cameras. (B&W)
School Crossing Guards
Not sure WHAT is going on here.
Wackenhut performance at the Olympics and the FUBAR at ORNL, do not measure up to the expected levels for a School Crossing Guard or a YMCA babysitter.
What Gives?
Budget, Debt, Cash Flow, Stupid, Sabotaged or Drunk?
It is NOT like the US Secret Service did any better in South America. They could not handle a Ho-House squable.
I'm thinking the COMMON ELEMENT is ... Obama.
Some ‘splaining to do?
Executive Management
http://www.g4sgs.com/executive_management.html
PAUL P. DONAHUE - President and CEO
KEVIN A. CONRY - COO
LAURA V. THOMAS - Executive VP, CFO, Treasurer & Assistant Secretary
CRAIG KING - General Counsel
What Went Wrong?
Some ‘splaining to do, Part II?
Board of Directors
http://www.g4sgs.com/board_directors.html
DAVID E. JEREMIAH Chairman of the Board, Chairman, Audit & Finance Committee, Compensation Committee, Government Security Committee, Committee member of Compensation and Government Security
JAMES L. LONG III Committee member of Audit & Finance, Compensation and Government Security
DAVID W. FOLEY Committee member of Government Security
JOHN S. FOSTER Committee member of Audit & Finance and Government Security
CAROL BOYD HALLET Committee member of Audit & Finance, Compensation and Government Security
TROY E. WADE Committee member of Audit & Finance and Government Security
PAUL P. DONAHUE Committee member of Government Security
BOB NATTER Committee member of Government Security
What Went Wrong Part II?
Some ‘splaining to do, Part III?
http://nnsa.energy.gov/ourmission/managingthestockpile
Managing the Stockpile
Maintaining the safety, security and effectiveness of the nuclear deterrent without nuclear testing - especially at lower numbers – requires increased investments across the nuclear security enterprise.
http://nnsa.energy.gov/aboutus/ourleadership
Thomas P. D’Agostino - Under Secretary for Nuclear Security & Administrator, National Nuclear Security Administration
Neile L. Miller - Principal Deputy Administrator
Michael K. Lempke - Associate Principal Deputy Administrator
Dr. Donald L. Cook - Deputy Administrator for Defense Programs
Anne Harrington - Deputy Administrator for Defense Nuclear Nonproliferation
NNSA Information (202) 586-5000 - NNSA Press Office (202) 586-7371
“a dangerous failure of security”
“ensure all necessary corrective action is taken”
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/08/alexander-corker-express-conce....
U.S. Senators Lamar Alexander (R-TN) and Bob Corker, (R-TN), are familiar with the high-security nature of nuclear weapons work at Y-12, and they expressed their concern about the July 28 break-in by protesters who penetrated multiple barriers to reach the plant's Protected Area. In response to questions, the senators provided statements through their offices in Washington, D.C.:
Laura Lefler Herzog, Corker's communications director, said,
"We believe this breach represents a dangerous failure of security and will continue to
monitor the ongoing investigation to ensure all necessary corrective action is taken to
secure Y-12 and the entire NNSA system."
Jim Jeffries, communications director for Alexander, said the senator
"was disturbed by news of the intrusion" at the Oak Ridge site and hopes to learn from
the Y-12 investigation how it happened and "how it will be prevented from ever
happening again."
"how it will be prevented from ever happening again."
“not a team of highly trained commandos”
“The U.S. Department of Energy and the National Nuclear Security Administration must take whatever steps are necessary to prevent such a previously inconceivable incident from occurring again.”
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/05/editorial-accountability-key-in...
Editorial: Accountability key in probe of Y-12 security breach
By NEWS SENTINEL EDITORIAL BOARD - Sunday, August 5, 2012
Last weekend's unprecedented infiltration by peace activists to the inner sanctum of the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant in Oak Ridge was an outrageous and unforgivable breach of security. The security failure was made even more galling because the intruders were three aging activists — a 82-Y/O Nevada nun, a 57 Y/O housepainter and military veteran from Duluth, Minn.; and a 63 Y/O gardener from Washington, D.C. — and not a team of highly trained commandos.
A comprehensive review of security measures — apparently long overdue — has begun. Peter Stockton, who analyzes security at nuclear facilities for the Project on Government Oversight, said the stand-down suggests "drastic flaws in security" have been found. DOE's inspector general and NNSA must conduct a thorough review of B&W Y-12's operations, and the procedures and performance of Wackenhut Services. Obviously, shortcomings in both must be addressed and responsible individuals held accountable. Wackenhut should revisit plans to eliminate 50 Oak Ridge jobs, including 34 Y-12 security officers. The contracts of both firms are coming to an end, and federal officials should take this egregious failure into account for the future competition.
This incident has shattered the perception that Y-12 is an impregnable stronghold. Everyone involved with the plant's management and security must redouble their efforts to assure the most important aspects of work at the plant — the safety of the workers and the security of nuclear materials.
“This incident has shattered the perception that Y-12 is an impregnable stronghold.”
This Ain't 'Sister Rice'
Y-12 Security to Finally Be Tested
The Department of Energy Office of Independent Oversight Program (IO) will conduct a full review of security at Y-12 before the end of this month, including a performance test of the guard force, which means force-on-force exercises. IO teams will conduct additional performance tests (including force-on-force drills) at each of the CAT 1 sites—sites with bomb-grade uranium and plutonium—including Savannah River, Oak Ridge National Lab, Idaho National Lab, Lawrence Livermore, Los Alamos, and Pantex. Additionally, a DoD security team will conduct force-on-force security tests in September at the Oak Ridge National Laboratory.
IO might be capable, but under the circumstances, DOE should consider using the Defense Department’s Grizzly Hitch as the adversaries. They are a unit of the Army Special Forces out of Fort Bragg that have been used in the past to test DOE guard forces. If an 82-year-old nun was able to breach Y-12 and wander around, we need to reconsider our approach to protecting the nuclear arsenal.
By PETER STOCKTON Aug 28, 2012
http://pogoblog.typepad.com/pogo/2012/08/y-12-security-to-finally-be-tes...
President's Nobel Peace Prize
Remember our President received the Nobel Peace Prize for nuclear disarmament from the Swedish Royal Academy. Unfortunately, the President's "disarmament plan" has consisted of NOT providing sufficient funding for the Department of Energy to do a proper job of Stockpile Stewardship.
Additionally, many of the facilities within the nuclear weapons complex like Y-12 date to the Manhattan Project years and are in dire need of replacement or refurbishment. One hears a big hew and cry from the anti-nukes about how 40 year old reactors are too old and need to be retired for safety reasons. The facilities within the nuclear weapons complex are over 60 years old, and the same anti-nukes, including the President, do not want to spend any money to ensure that these facilities are safe and can properly perform their function.
That's exactly what they are afraid that private industry is going to do with the 40 year old reactors in our power plants. Hypocrites!!! What's good for the goose is good for the gander.
“designed with modern security features”
Not advised, Ignorant, Nescient, Stupid, Liar and ugly …
We can’t rule any of these out, for you, given the above statement.
Officials said that the ultra-secure enriched uranium stockpile building, known as the "Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility.", which was built after the September 11, 2001, al Qaeda attacks on New York and Washington, was designed with modern security features.
WSI Oak Ridge, the private firm employed by the U.S. Department of Energy to provide security at Y-12, is a subsidiary of the giant international security firm G4S. G4S drew criticism for failing to provide the number of security personnel it promised to protect the London Olympic Games, forcing the British government to deploy extra army troops. A spokeswoman for G4S declined to comment and referred inquiries to government spokespeople.
The security failure was an embarrassment both for the security firm and for the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, the Energy Department branch that operates U.S. nuclear weapons plants. "It was obviously a pretty serious incident," NNSA spokesman Joshua McConaha told Reuters. "We're taking this very, very seriously," added Steve Wyatt, a spokesman for the NNSA office in Oak Ridge, which supervises the activities of Y-12 contractors.
“designed with modern security features”
Doesn't matter how new...
Doesn't matter how new your facility is, if you don't have the number of people that you need to properly protect the facility.
You won't have the number of people you need to properly secure the facility if the Department of Energy and the Administration deny you the resources to employ the proper number of people.
Didn't you read the articles on this; they were cutting back on security personnel for monetary reasons.
they spent several hours in a secure area
http://www.homelandsecuritynewswire.com/dr20120822-y12-and-operator-error
Three anti-nuclear activists, led by an 82-year old nun, breached the perimeter security system of the supposedly highly secure Y-2 nuclear facility at Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where nuclear weapons components are manufactured; they then spent several hours in a secure area of the facility, leisurely spray-painting slogans on the facility’s walls – without the facility’s security staff, or the sophisticated $500 million security cameras and sensors, detecting them
At dawn a Catholic nun named Sister Megan Rice, age 82, broke into the Y-12 facilities along with two other seniors. Y-12, which describes itself as, “one of four production facilities in the National Nuclear Security Administration’s Nuclear Security Enterprise,” is responsible for “the processing and storage of uranium and development of technologies associated with those activities.” According to Y-12’s Web site, Y-12 has some of the most stringent security in the world.”
Nevertheless, an octogenarian nun and two accomplices, one 57, the other 63, attacked at dawn armed only with bolt cutters and flashlights. Ignoring signs warning that deadly force might be used against them, they somehow traversed three fences and eluded security guards along with security cameras and other layers of technologies to reach the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility
Barney Fife
Deputy Barney Fife, of Mayberry R.F.D., could not have done worse; and Don Knotts was a comedian 'doing it for the laughs'. Barney and Andy would have stopped this church group at the perimeter fence, and locked them up with Otis, the town drunk.
What is that phrase? Oh yeah, 'Good Order and Discipline', that's the one.
Team Obama promised that their 'agenda' would not adversely affect 'Good Order & Discipline'.
Now, that WOULD be funny, if the stakes were lower, than nuclear security, national security, constitutional governance and the rule of law.
There is NO 'Good Order & Discipline', none, zilch, zero, nada!
Our collective butts are hanging out there, flapping in the breeze!
The wrong suspects are ‘in irons’.
'Obama Nuclear Security' is an oxymora!
Team Obama ‘nuclear security’ apparently consists of: ‘watching the Olympics’, Siesta, Playing Golf, Lunch, potty-breaks, goldbricking, gay-right-demonstrations, fundraisers, community organizing, beer-chugging, smoking crack, poker, and fornication.
The wrong suspects are ‘in irons’.
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-03/news/sns-rt-us-usa-securit...
The three defendants appeared in grey, striped prison clothes with orange plastic shoes, handcuffs, and leg manacles. Rice has a thyroid and heart condition, and has not been receiving her medication appeared frail. Court was recessed to allow time to find a space heater and a blanket for Rice, who was suffering from hypothermia.
U.S. Magistrate Judge C. Clifford Shirley ruled the threat of violence was low and decided to release 'Sister' Rice and Walli. Both were given travel and other restrictions, and will stay at a private residence in Knoxville while court proceedings continue, according to defense attorneys. Boertje-Obed waived his right to a defense attorney and will remain in detention. (Doing that ‘time-served’ thing I suppose.)
The wrong suspects are ‘in irons’.
Bread/Wine - Body/Blood (Religious Ceremony)
"There's never been anything quite like this before,"
http://abcnews.go.com/Blotter/nun-82-allegedly-splashed-human-blood-nuke...
The three were arraigned on federal trespassing charges in district federal court in Knoxville Monday. If convicted, the activists could face up to $100,000 fine and up to a year in prison. The Department of Energy Inspector General is investigating how the trio broke in. "There's never been anything quite like this before," (Y-12 spokesman Steven Wyatt) said.
Before being taken to the Blount County jail, where they're currently being held, Walli, Rice and Boertje-Obed gave bread to the Y-12 security officers. The use of blood was meant to "[remind] us of the horrific spilling of blood by nuclear weapons," Plowshares said in statement released via its website Monday.
"There's never been anything quite like this before,"
It was a Church Service
Reading from the Bible?
Reading from the Bible & Lighting Candles is not exactly DEFCON 1
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/knx/munger/2012/08/fired-y-12-guard-claims-hes...
Fifty-two-year-old Kirk Garland, who has decades of experience at high-security U.S. Department of Energy installations, is being used as a scapegoat for an embarrassing breach that was not of his doing. Garland was the first security officer to arrive at the scene outside the Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, where he encountered the three Plowshares protesters.
He did not pull his gun or take other physical actions immediately because that wasn't necessary. He quickly established they were pacifist protesters, in part because of the messages spray-painted on the walls, and they obeyed everything he said. While watching the three, who he said were reading from the Bible, Garland called for help. He was the only guard at the scene for about four minutes. "I handled them the way I was trained to handle passive protesters."
http://bibledatabase.net/html/kjv/psalms_127.html Perhaps they were reading from the writings of David/Solomon, Psalm 127:1 “Except the LORD build the house, they labour in vain that build it: except the LORD keep the city, the watchman waketh but in vain.”
Medals for the stupid hippies
Great Peril
This foolhardy act, has brought to light a BREACH in nuclear security and (at the very least) gross dereliction of duty, by those officials responsible for security at ORNL and DC.
A person convicted of dereliction of duty can be given a dishonorable or bad behavior discharge from his or her branch of service, and may forfeit pay or be sentenced to six months confinement. U.S. Uniform Code of Military Justice (UCMJ), addresses dereliction of duty within the regulations governing the failure to obey an order or regulation.
The nation and indeed the world, were (or jperhaps are) subject to credible nuclear terrorism, by parties unknown.
Has anyone inventoried the U235 & Pu239 recently. These 3 hippies may not be the only ones to breach the ORNL weapons grade nuclear storage facility.
Everybody in Washington DC should pee their pants TWICE over this FUBAR!
Trespassing & vandalism
The nun and her escorts were booked for trespassing and vandalism. The grossly negligent CHARADE, which presently passes for USA 'national security' constitutes a grave 'terroristic threat'.
http://www.reuters.com/london-olympics-2012/articles/2012/08/02/us-nucle...
"officials conceded the intruders were still able to reach the building's walls before security personnel got to them. Ellen Barfield, a spokeswoman for the activists who called themselves "Transform Now Plowshares," said three were arrested and charged with vandalism and criminal trespass. She said the three, identified as Megan Rice, 82, Michael Walli, 63 and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57, were being held in custody and appeared for a hearing before a U.S. magistrate judge in Knoxville, Tennessee, on Thursday."
"charged with vandalism and criminal trespass"
Those people committed an act
Those people committed an act of terrorism. They should go to prison for a long time.
Stupid IS as Stupid DOES
Does Eric Himpton Holder II have ANY notion how STUPID the USDOJ looks today?
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/04/felony-charges-added-to-case-ag...
By Frank Munger - Knoxville News Sentinel - Posted August 4, 2012 at 5 a.m.
The federal government Friday filed new and more serious charges — felony destruction of property — against three protesters who sneaked into the Y-12 nuclear weapons plant last weekend and defaced the exterior of the Oak Ridge plant's bomb-grade uranium storehouse with anti-war messages. The new charges carry a maximum sentence of 5 years imprisonment, with a maximum fine of $250,000.
Assistant U.S. Attorney Melissa Kirby argued the defendants:
1) Are a danger to the community,
2) Carried letters explaining their mission, (in the event of death)
3) ‘Guard’ gunfire also could have harmed others, too
4) Repeat offenders would do other destructive acts — of an escalating nature
5) spawn copycat protesters
Fixing that chain-link fence oughta run oh, maybe $25, including materials. Then there is the $20 paintjob on the ‘Worlds Most Secure Building’.
Charges Pending ... against the flying nun
Sister Mary Holy Water ‘walked’ the trespassing charge
http://articles.chicagotribune.com/2012-08-03/news/sns-rt-us-usa-securit...
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Judge releases nun who broke into U.S. nuclear bomb facility
August 03, 2012|Preston Peeden | Reuters
KNOXVILLE, Tennessee (Reuters) - A U.S. magistrate judge on Friday ordered the release pending trial of an 82-year-old nun and another anti-nuclear activist charged with breaching security fences at one of the most sensitive U.S. nuclear facilities, in Oak Ridge, Tennessee, where weapons-grade uranium is kept.
The security failure was an embarrassment for the National Nuclear Security Administration, or NNSA, the Energy Department branch that operates U.S. nuclear weapons plants, and for the international security firm G4S, which owns WSI Oak Ridge, the contractor responsible for protecting the facility.
Impregnable Fortress?
Not Hardly
An octogenarian nun and two aging acolytes, ‘knocked on the door’.
Next time, the parish youth choir may, ‘kick the sumbeech in’.
Wide Open for the taking
Sister Bertrille MIGHT BE a flight risk, literally
This just in ... From ABC
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Hua7m6wQuw
Sister Mary Holy-Water MIGHT be a flight risk
Whitewash
Whitewashing a wall
Constitutes the misdemeanor of vandalism, Add to that tresspassing, and
Megan Rice, 82, Michael Walli, 63 and Greg Boertje-Obed, 57 ... Are in a HEAP of Trouble,
Primarily for demonstrating that USA nuclear security is as porous as USA border security.
An 82 Y/O hippy carried a bucket of whitewash, trudged 2 miles, and crossed (cut or climbed) several chain link fences.
Back in the day, the German Sheppards would have EATEN these hippies, before the handlers could have rescued them.
Where were the dogs during this caper?
Bangladesh Daily Star
All the news that's fit to print
The biggest breach of USA nuclear security (since the Rosenbergs) gets more coverage in Bangladesh than ABC, CBS, NBC & CNN combined.
http://www.thedailystar.net/newDesign/latest_news.php?nid=39639
NBC has picked up the story
NBC has picked up the story
http://usnews.nbcnews.com/_news/2012/08/02/13092159-oak-ridge-uranium-pl...
NBC News US on Facebook --- Like 127,497
Not very funny
Question
Does the US Government still have compliance officers? Or were they RIFFED with with the Strategic Nuclear Drug Stockpile, immigration enforcement and gate security at ORNL?
Looks like the TOTAL breakdown in nuclear security is starting to get some attention.
http://www.thefox1049.com/pages/13890595.php?contentType=4&contentId=111...
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2183022/Y-12-complex-Nun-Megan-R...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/world/2012/aug/03/nuclear-uranium-tennessee-se...
“security costs could be reduced”
ORNL to eliminate 50 security jobs, including 34 security police officers
http://www.knoxnews.com/news/2012/aug/04/felony-charges-added-to-case-ag...
By Frank Munger, Knoxville News Sentinel - Posted August 4, 2012 at 5 a.m.
Despite the unprecedented security breach last weekend, the Oak Ridge security contractor — WSI-Oak Ridge — reportedly plans to continue forward with plans to eliminate about 50 security jobs, including 34 security police officers at Y-12.
Steven Wyatt, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration, said a federal review supported the job cuts. The NNSA did an Oak Ridge review last year to see where security costs could be reduced. "The size of the protective force," Wyatt said, "is determined through a comprehensive process that considers a number of factors, which have not changed since the decision to reduce the size of the protective forces was made."
“security costs could be reduced”
ALL the help they can GET
IMHO
Looks like these putzes need ALL the help they can GET.
http://blogs.knoxnews.com/munger/2012/08/plan-to-reduce-y-12-security-f....
In response to questions, Steven Wyatt of the National Nuclear Security Administration said the workforce restructuring plan proposed by WSI-Oak Ridge, the protective force contractor, had been cancelled. He declined immediate comment on whether the action was related to the security breach.
Under the plan, WSI had said it planned to eliminate as many as 51 security jobs in Oak Ridge, with most of them coming from the Y-12 guard force. Courtney Henry, a contractor spokeswoman, previously said up to 34 security police officer jobs would be eliminated at Y-12, along with three other security-related staff positions at the plant.
No authority to 'restructure'
WSI Oak Ridge no longer has the authority to restructure its staff
http://oakridgetoday.com/2012/08/28/officials-cancel-plan-to-cut-guards-...
Officials have said the security breach is being investigated.
WSI Oak Ridge, which provides security at Y-12, no longer has the authority to restructure its staff since it is now a subcontractor reporting to B&W Y-12, rather than the National Nuclear Security Administration, said Steven Wyatt, public affairs manager for the NNSA Production Office in Oak Ridge. That change in reporting authority followed an unprecedented July 28 security breach at the plant, the nation’s main production facility for many nuclear weapons components.
The WSI plan had called for cutting a total of up to 52 jobs at Y-12 and the East Tennessee Technology Park. Employees were to be offered voluntary separations, and today was supposed to be the last work day for those who were accepted. WSI Public Affairs Manager Courtney Russell Henry did not immediately respond to a question about whether the plan to cut staff at ETTP has also been canceled.
Officials have said the security breach is being investigated.