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Senator Questions Absence of Los Alamos Disks
The reported disappearance last month of two classified computer disks from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico might not have happened at all, Senator Pete Domenici (R-N.M.) said yesterday, suggesting that problems with the facility’s inventory system may be to blame (see GSN, Aug. 9). “It may be that what we have here is a false positive — the system says something is missing when it is not,” Domenici said in a statement. “And just as if it were a medical test, it is better to find out the inventory was wrong than that the disks were actually missing,” he added. Two sources said that what probably happened at Los Alamos was that the disks themselves never existed and that the incident was caused by two extra barcode stickers remaining on a sheet of 20 used to label 18 disks, according to the Associated Press. While the two remaining stickers should also have been applied to disks, if the disks did not exist, it would explain why the stickers were left over, one source said (Mark Evans, Associated Press/USA Today, Aug. 10).
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