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septimasexta ago

Richardson’s Purge June 25, 1999

"Yesterday, the House Government Reform Committee held a critically

important hearing featuring testimony from Energy and Defense Department employees who

have been punished for warning about Clinton Administration policies that threaten U.S.

security.1 No sooner had Republican and Democratic

Representatives received this evidence of

efforts by Energy Secretary Bill Richardson and other senior Clinton Administration officials to

punish people for the incompetent or malfeasant behavior they opposed than rumors began

circulating in Washington about Mr. Richardson’s next victim: Vic Reis, the

Assistant Secretary

of Energy for Defense Programs."

"In fact, for at least

the past two

years, responsibility for “counterintelligence and security at the labs” — and elsewhere in

the nuclear weapons complex — has actually been vested in somebody else, Rose

Gottemoeller. Ms. Gottemoeller is a proponent of radical anti-nuclear proposals who, thanks to Secretary Richardson’s machinations, was stealthily elevated earlier this year to the status of Assistant Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security.

It has been Ms. Gottemoeller, not Vic Reis, who has had responsibility for such

scandals as:

1.

the declassification of Restricted Data and Formerly Restricted Data in violation of

the Atomic Energy Act and job action against a senior DoE bureaucrat who had the

temerity to alert Congress to this breach of security and the law.

2.

the demotion of Notra Trulock — the former Director of DoE’s

Intelligence Office, who was

a prime-mover behind the effort to uncover and comprehend the magnitude of Chinese

penetration of U.S. nuclear weapons secrets.

3.

the effective firing of Lieutenant Colonel Ed McCallum, one of those

who testified yesterday before Rep. Dan Burton’s Government Reform Committee, in transparent

retaliation for his years of warnings about DoE’s appalling security situation — warnings that

had been ignored until very recently by Secretaries Richardson and Gottemoeller and

their predecessors."

https://www.centerforsecuritypolicy.org/1999/06/25/richardsons-purge-2/

new4now ago

Richardson was also an Ambassador to the UN

He took 8 trips to North Korea

The last trip was with Eric Schimdt of Google and his daughter

Schmidt is part of a "private humanitarian mission" led by former New Mexico governor Bill Richardson, which is ostensibly focused on the case of a detained US citizen awaiting trial for alleged crimes against the state.

But state media have made North Korea's spin on the visit very clear. "Delegation of Google Corp of US Arrives" was the headline used by the official Korean Central News Agency (KCNA) in announcing the Americans' arrival on Monday.

https://www.scmp.com/news/asia/article/1124160/what-googles-eric-schmidt-doing-north-korea

Vindicator ago

Wow

septimasexta ago

"Weapon plans stolen[edit]

Main article: Wen Ho Lee

In December 1999, the FBI was investigating how China obtained plans for a specific nuclear device. Wen Ho Lee was accused of stealing nuclear secrets from Los Alamos National Laboratory for the People's Republic of China. Federal officials, including then-Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, publicly named Lee as a suspect before he was charged with a crime. The U.S. Congress held hearings to investigate the Department of Energy's mishandling of his case. Republican senators thought that an independent agency should be in charge of nuclear weapons and security issues, not the Department of Energy.[15] All but one of the 59 charges against Lee were eventually dropped because the investigation finally proved that the plans the Chinese obtained could not have come from Lee. Lee filed suit and won a $1.6 million settlement against the federal government and news agencies."

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_States_Department_of_Energy