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Nuclear Files Not Top Secret, Laboratory Says
No top secret information was in the classified documents found last month in the home of a former contract employee at the Los Alamos National Laboratory, according to a statement Friday from the Authorities retrieved about 200 paper documents and portable computer data storage devices containing more than 400 classified files from the home of Jessica Quintana after local police responded to a disturbance there. “None of [the material] was top secret,” said laboratory spokesman Kevin Roark. “None of it was our most sensitive nuclear weapons information.” Most of the documents were classified at the lowest levels and were more than 20 years old, he added. Quintana’s attorney expressed some relief that the documents were not highly classified because the potential consequences against his client would be reduced. “The law looks at the level of security of documents that are mishandled,” said Stephen Aarons. “You still shouldn’t be removing them [from the laboratory], so the issues are the same. But it’s just that we don’t have the damage done in this case that people feared.” Quintana remains under investigation and has not yet been charged with any crime, the Associated Press reported. The laboratory was assessing its security protocols, according to its statement. It was “taking decisive actions to further enhance our existing security measures that protect classified information,” the statement said. Efforts have begun to limit the use of portable storage devices, such as USB flash drives, Roark said. “We’re making them inoperable, where appropriate,” he said (Deborah Baker, Associated Press, Nov. 4).
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