Sweet. No, really. This is really good. The Counterintelligence Directorate, the Energy Department agency that is supposed to protect our nuclear secrets from foreign spies has lost 20 desktop computers. At least 14 of them may contain secret classified information, according to an audit (.pdf) by the department's inspector general.
Since the Counterintelligence Directorate, which also had trouble locating 141 other computers, is supposed to, er, counter intelligence (that is, foreign intelligence), the computers would have contained information on efforts by enemy spies to steal American nuclear secrets. If only the Energy Department had instituted some rules to "minimize the potential for release or disclosure of classified data, materials, or information." Oh wait.
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