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How Did an 82-Year-Old Nun & 2 Other Anti-War Protesters Breach the ‘Fort Knox for Highly Enriched Uranium’?

Y-12 National Security Complex breach

Signs warn against trespassing onto the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. , on Friday, Aug. 17, 2012. The plant recently resumed operations put on hold after three anti-war protesters, including an 82-year-old nun, cut their way through three fences and spray-painted slogans on the wall of a weapons-grade uranium facility. (AP)

OAK RIDGE, Tenn. (AP) — Officials like to refer to the Y-12 National Security Complex as the Fort Knox for highly enriched uranium, which is why an unprecedented incursion by an 82-year-old nun and two fellow protesters has critics mocking the notion that the weapons plant is secure.

Operations resumed last week after being shut down over the embarrassing incident 18 days earlier. The Department of Energy has called on the contractor that runs the sensitive facility just west of Knoxville to explain why it shouldn’t be replaced.

Y-12 makes uranium parts for every warhead in the U.S. nuclear arsenal, dismantles old weapons and is the nation’s primary storehouse for bomb-grade uranium.

Officials insist that despite the more than two hours that the protesters went unchallenged on the facility, there was never any danger of them getting to materials that could be detonated on site or used to assemble a dirty bomb.

The Highly Enriched Uranium Materials Facility, or HEUMF, is designed to withstand earthquakes up to a 7.7 magnitude, tornado-force winds of up to 200 mph or the impact of a general aviation aircraft. It could also withstand a ground attack, officials said.

Y-12 National Security Complex breach

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“Our (protection force) is deployed so that any serious attempt to attack the facility would be repulsed well in advance of any credible threat,” Steven Wyatt, a spokesman for the National Nuclear Security Administration at Y-12, said in an email.

But Peter Stockton, a former DOE adviser on nuclear security in the Clinton administration and a senior investigator with the Project On Government Oversight, said the incident hasn’t been taken seriously enough because the intruders had no violent intentions.

“We were lucky in that regard that it was the nun and her cohorts, rather than a serious terrorist outfit,” Stockton said. POGO, a Washington-based independent watchdog known for exposing overpriced military parts and other government shortcomings, has been a frequent critic of security lapses at the facility.

Stockton called the July 28 intrusion the “only serious penetration of a plant” that he’s aware of since becoming involved in nuclear security issues in the mid-1970s.

“It is simply (expletive) unbelievable,” he said.

Other than striking out in the pre-dawn darkness, the three protesters did little to conceal their nearly half-mile trek into the restricted area where signs warn intruders they could be shot.

Anti War Protesters Breach Fort Knox for Uranium Y 12 National Security Complex

In photographs provided by the U.S. Marshals Service, anti-nuclear weapons activists Greg Boertje-Obed of Washington, D.C. , Sister Megan Rice of Nevada, and Michael R. Walli of Duluth, Minn. , are pictured. Officials say they were arrested for trespassing and defacing a building in the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, a high-security area of the nuclear weapons site in Oak Ridge, Tenn. , on Saturday, July 28, 2012.

According to court documents, they used bolt cutters to get through three fences, tripping alarms in the process. They told acquaintances in the peace movement that they spent more than two hours inside the restricted area. The action culminated in the protesters spray-painting and throwing blood on the walls of the white fortress-like HEUMF structure.

The Energy Department’s “show cause” letter to contractor Babcock & Wilcox Technical Services Y-12 LLC identifies an “inappropriate” cultural mindset in the plant and a “severe lapse of discipline.”

“Despite receiving numerous alarms from the multi-layered sensor system in the fence line, the protective force failed to react to the protesters as they cut through the three fences,” according to letter.

And once they did decide to investigate, responders didn’t know what to do with the protesters until a supervisor took control of the situation.

Wyatt, the Y-12 spokesman, said after the plant ended its stand-down that the main security force operated by WSI Oak Ridge, formerly Wackenhut, has been downgraded to a subcontractor in response to the incident. Other improvements also were made, but he declined to provide specifics because the information is considered sensitive.

After the breach, the president and general manager of the Babcock & Wilcox division that runs Y-12, Darrel Kohlhorst, retired from his job. He told The Knoxville News Sentinel that the company would emerge stronger because of the incident.

“Well, I think it did show us we had some weaknesses. We had some deficiencies,” Kohlhorst told the newspaper. “The team has really attacked those things and corrected them, and I think we’re actually going to be a lot stronger coming out of this thing.”

Anti War Protesters Breach Fort Knox for Uranium Y 12 National Security Complex

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Stockton said the muddled response on the night of the intrusion raises questions about what might have happened under a different set of circumstances.

“You get through the fences, you get to the building, and if you have special forces guys – dedicated guys who are suicidal and heavily armed – all you do is blow the door off or blow a hole in the side of the building,” he said.

Others questioned whether the protesters got close enough to do any real harm.

The intruders never came within reach of weapons-grade materials, U.S. Sen. Bob Corker, R-Tenn., said in a phone interview Wednesday after a tour of the facility.

“There were still lots of other levels they would have had to go through, but again, you can’t tolerate this,” he said. “I do think what it‘s done is that it’s served as a wake-up call.”

Matthew Bunn, an associate professor at Harvard University’s John F. Kennedy School of Government, said his own tour of the facility leads him to agree that penetrating the interior of the building would be a difficult proposition.

Y-12 has always been a secretive place. The government tucked it and other bomb-making facilities into a valley about 30 miles west of Knoxville during World War II and built a guarded city around it. The city of Oak Ridge is open today, but most of the Y-12 facilities can’t be seen from the road and visitors must get a security clearance to enter.

One indicator of how serious authorities consider the July breach is how they’re treating the arrested trio.

Anti-war protesters have rallied at the gates of Y-12 for decades around the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima. Some deliberately trespass or block traffic to provoke arrest and call more attention to their cause. Some years, authorities have tried to deprive them of the notoriety by refusing to prosecute. Sometimes they go to federal court, but the stiffest sentence ever meted out was less than a year in prison.

This time, federal prosecutors have thrown the book at the three protesters, charging them with offenses that could carry cumulative prison sentences of 16 years for Sister Megan Rice of Las Vegas, Michael Walli of Washington and Greg Boertje-Obed of Duluth, Minn.

“That’s the reaction to the embarrassment,” said Ralph Hutchison, of the loose-knit Oak Ridge Environmental Peace Alliance.

Previous protests around the plant – including one less than three months after 9/11 – have led to millions of dollars of security upgrades. But those haven’t prevented repeated lapses.

“We’re paying all that money for an illusion of security – and you really can’t secure the plant,” Hutchison said.

On New Year’s Day 2002, a dozen protesters marched onto the Y-12 facility carrying 14-foot flags and lighted candles. They stopped three times for prayer services, but were arrested only after being spotted by a passing motorist who reported them to guards.

Since then, more guards have been added, concrete barriers have been built and other security measures taken to meet protective standards described as three times tougher than before 9/11.

But security miscues have persisted.

In 2003, guards were accused of cheating on a mock assault drill, though security contractor Wackenhut Services Inc. denied it. Later, a refrigerator was shot with a live round that had become mixed with blanks at the guard training center.

Confusion during another training exercise in 2004 allegedly put drill participants at risk of being shot by a “shadow force” of on-duty officers.

Seven guards were caught napping at Y-12 between 2000 and 2008, and Bunn said the security lapses show the inherent difficulty in maintaining perpetual vigilance.

“The reality is nobody ever attacks these facilities,” he said. “And getting everyone constantly on their tippy-toes of preparedness for an attack that never comes is a difficult problem.”

The most recent protest was in response to the preparations for building of a new multibillion-dollar uranium processing plant at Y-12, said Hutchison, of the anti-war group. The intrusion should cause officials to “recognize that building the new bomb plant carries with it significant security risks.”

Hutchison said the security breach has security teams at the plant on their toes – at least for now.

“I doubt anybody’s relaxed and casual now,” he said. “But give it six months or a year-and-a-half, and then what?”

Comments (97)

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  • SOUNDTHETRUMPET
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:36am

    Lets see now. Swam ashore walked across 2 run ways. and walked into a Delta terminal. We are all so safe

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    • Shiroi Raion
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:11am

      This woman is a nun? Is this what God told her to do or did she simply slip into a time warp and think it was 1965? There’s no shortage of crazy people.
      Did they fire the guards to pay for some hippie’s unemployment? (expletive) unbelievable is right.

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    • docgreen
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:28pm

      And were paying people millions for security! When you think about the Border and realize its a billion times worse than this, you start to question why our Govt. hasn’t put a stop to it? Millions in security so people can walk right in! Yep and we wonder why terrorists like coming to America? We can spend all the money in the World, but that won’t help! What we need is a fence 30 feet hight and 20 feet deep! Enough of flying drones, border agents getting shot at and killed, while obama and holder arm the criminals! Now their talking about a blimp? Why not just build a cement wall? Like Israel, and how many suicide terrorist bombings have they had in the past few years in Israel? 0, NONE! People if we don’t wake up to islam, suicide bombers one day will do the same thing within the US! We have to stop, islam, before its to late!….

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    • db321
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:44pm

      So if I were a terrorist and I had some wire cutters I could get all of the Weapons Grade Plutonium I wanted. If a Nun can do it, I guess any terrorist could do it.

      Can we make it a little easier on the Terrorist that want to DESTROY AMERICA and maybe post a map for them to follow.

      Nice story. Please post a story that shows how a 4 year old can turn off our Nations Power Grid.

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    • jhaydeng
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 4:44pm

      They should have been shot!

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    • inblack
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 7:16pm

      They should still be shot.

      They have made public how to enter a nuclear weapons facility and this makes them traitors.

      Firing Squad.

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    • newmexicopatriots
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:32pm

      INBLACK… Are you ******* insane? The Government IS the Enemy. Not the other way around. All of you here who preach about “Freedom” and “Rights” and all that, when it comes time to fight the government, you ******* are all going to turn and run. Cowards.

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    • BryanB
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 8:58pm

      This happened because these Government contract companies. contract their Security Guards with Wackenhut. Wackenhut is a preferred Government contractor for security because they under-bid everyone else, and they don’t complain when their contracrs are cut back. That means when this secure government facility cut-back the number of Security Guards, bescause of Budget-Cuts, Wackenhut said nothing.

      Now it’s not the fault of the Security Guards that their staff was cut from 5 to 7 Guards a shift to just 2 a shift.

      This is what most of these Government Contract Companies do during Budget-Cut times, the first thing they cut is Security Staff, Because the Security Staff doesn’t make any Money for their Company.

      In fact I bet you could walk right in to most Government

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    • BryanB
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:26pm

      Continued……….

      In fact I bet you could walk right in to most Government Secure Facilities, because Security has been Cut do to Budget Cuts.

      And this is what really makes it bad

      Because they are Private Security Companies any and all Records, Reports or Logs, are Private Property and not subject to the Freedom of Information Act.

      Are you sure you still want Private Security Companies to take over Airport Security for the TSA. If Private Security takes over for the TSA, you will never see another Public Complaint again, because it will all be Private Records and not Public Records………..

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  • spfoam1
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:31am

    They cut through three fences and they are still alive. That’s remarkable. In most other countries they would all be dead or wishing they were dead, and no one would be talking about them.

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:01am

      They look like they r all out of the movie the “ Living Dead ”

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    • Sirfoldallot
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:03am

      They wanted some Nucler fibber

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    • nzkiwi
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:48pm

      @ Spfoam

      That is what they rely on. These silly idiots know that they are highly unlikely to be shot on sight and that their defence will be paid by others. In addition, they gain publicity for their equally idiotic organisations.

      Just look at Bill Ayers. Once a terrorist, but now a professor and confidante to the US President. How ridiculous is that?

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    • Zipit
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:02pm

      I say, send the sneaky old farts to gitmo!

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  • TIME_2_END_THE_PAUL_CAMPAIGN_IN_12
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:26am

    What I want to know is…. WHICH one of you Ron Paul internet miscreants substituted Ron Paul‘s pic for Megan Rice’s….??

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:10am

      Megan Rice is a horrible person. If there is a God, I will stand as a witness against her.

      The Silence of the Pulpits
      http://www.americanthinker.com/2012/08/the_silence_of_the_pulpits_comments.html#disqus_thread

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    • Glenn in Virginia
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 12:49pm

      Oh, don’t be silly!

      That‘s obviously Ron Paul’s grandmother.

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:32pm

      @Walkabout
      While I do agree with some points in the article, I find it overall misled. Is this from a believer’s perspective or a nonbeliever? It matters. Because as a believer that article made me sick with disgust for someone that blatantly advocates hatred for any reason. Are these deaths wrong yes, are these acts atrocious, yes. Why do they happen? Because Satan makes it happen. Whoever wrote that is afraid of death and I feel sorry for them. I don‘t fear death and I only fear God’s wrath, but I know that I am saved and would love if everyone had that feeling. Something tells me this person doesn’t. I pray that they do someday and realize that prayer isn’t something to be a show for everyone but something private between the person and God. and yes we do pray. So the silence is active and if he doesn’t understand it, then woe be unto him :(

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:34pm

      And @Walkabout
      You yourself take judgment so lightly. Find out who’s in control of your life.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:50pm

      PutMoreOnMyPlate

      I did not judge her lightly. I am pretty good with world history in general & military history particularly.
      This woman, this thing, Meagan Rice exalts the deaths at Hiroshima above many others. It seems that the manner of death of how fast it took matters more than the number of deaths. She spends so much time excoriating the U.S. over Hiroshima that I must conclude that being raped & murdered is a cake walk. Look up the Rape of Nanking.

      Megan Rice cannot debate for long. Harry Truman based his decision on the Iwo Jima & Okinawa campaigns. He looked at how many casualties U.S. Army & civilian would occur if we invaded Japan. He chose the option that cause the fewest deaths. And we had a right to invade Japan after Pearl Harbor. Pearl Harbor was the result of economic sanctions we put on Japan to protest the war of aggression against China. If you are going to argue that we had no right to implement economic sanction against Japan, then you might as well argue that we should have sent people to Japan to help them kill Koreans, Chinese & whoever they wanted to kill.

      Maybe if Megan had been alive then instead of fighting she would have been happier to be a “Comfort Woman” Did you read about that?

      Oh yes we can judge but it says we had better be right about our judgments.

      Justice would be to not protect these people. Justice would be to see it coming, step aside or duck & not call “fore” like you would in golf. That would be just

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:54pm

      PutMoreOnMyPlate
      This I know. If Christians are exterminated. Islam itself will fall. It might take a long time but it will happen.

      I also believe Christians don’t have to be like sheep for the slaughter. I have read other interpretation of turn the other cheek in context. We don’t have to sit here & take it.

      And God put way too much on my plate. But he hasn’t listened in a long time.

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    • Lt_Scrounge
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 6:34pm

      Walkabout, let’s not forget what the Japanese did to our own citizens. They need to educate Rice and her cohorts of how the Japanese treated American POWs, the Inuit civilians that they kidnapped from the Aleutians, or how the Japanese acted toward US military personnel during the battle for Attu Island in the Aleutians. Yes, the Japanese didn’t just invade our protectorate the Philippines, they actually invaded a number of islands off the Alaskan coast. Perhaps she needs to be educated into what the Japanese (and now Muslims) did to the Catholic nuns in the Philippines. She’s old enough that it could have been her. She needs to be reminded of that.

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  • forthepeople
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:24am

    Healthcare ? These are the people whom are going to run it and you can bet the same outcome ? Just look at the post office and they say it was the only break even government agency .

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  • BlackCrow
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:19am

    Let them try to breach security at Barksdale, Offutt or any other Air Force Base. If they ignore the guard they will be shot no if and or but about it.

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    • liberalescheisskopf
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:45pm

      Only AFTER the trespasser drove through the barricades, drove around the base for awhile, and then tried to LEAVE the base.THEN he was shot when he aimed his car at the guard.

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  • teddrunk
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:07am

    Megan Rice, Sister Mary Stalin, and her aging group of hippie Communist should be shot.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:15am

      “Anti-war protesters have rallied at the gates of Y-12 for decades around the anniversary of the bombing of Hiroshima”

      Are there any rallies protesting the Rape of Nanking?
      “Historians and witnesses have estimated that 250,000 to 300,000 people were killed” -wiki

      “Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima: -wiki

      Which is worse, the Rape of Nanking or the bombing of Hiroshima?

      How many survivors of Nanking starved to death afterward … after they fled their homes?

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:20am

      WW2 Death tolls
      -China 12,392,000
      -Indochina 1,500,000
      -Korea 500,000

      Vesus “Within the first two to four months of the bombings, the acute effects killed 90,000–166,000 people in Hiroshima and 60,000–80,000 in Nagasaki” – wiki

      Which is worse? The Japanese War juggernaut or stopping the Stopping the Japanese War Juggernaut?

      Greg Boertje-Obed of Washington, D.C. , Sister Megan Rice of Nevada, and Michael R. Walli of Duluth Minnesota stand accused of heinous crimes. Attempting to hamstringing the protectors.

      Sister Megan Rice never saved the life of one Christian, Hindu, Buddhist in Africa, The Middle East, Pakistan or anywhere else. Megan Rice is guilty!

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    • Aquinas
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:11pm

      Send her to Cardinal Dolan for the upcoming Al Smith roast. She can speak after Obango finishes

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:48pm

      Judgment as I believe it now correct me if I’m wrong is between the person and God where Satan condemns you for everything you did wrong and Jesus, either denies you or acknowledges you. So really the only thing that matters is allowing Jesus to acknowledge you. The irony in this as I noticed is that Walkabout is so quick to stand up with Satan and point fingers instead sharing the love of Christ who saves. This world matters not and Christians have been killed and persecuted for 2,000 years. I will die for my faith, but I will not go purposely looking for it by being a jack ass.

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    • Link8on
      Posted on August 24, 2012 at 9:10am

      @Walkabout

      The Hiroshima protestors are obviously fools as it happened during active warfare.
      My sense of justice rather celebrates that action as it marked the fall of fascist tyrrany.

      My personal view was that Nagasaki was unneccessary, rushed, and only speeded up the end of war by about 36 hours.

      I have often wondered why there is little protest regarding the Nagasaki bombing. There is more justification to protest the bombing that was not needed rather than the bombing that effectively ended WWII.

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  • lassiegirldawn
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:05am

    I feel much safer knowing that they only cut through three fences.

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  • barber2
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 10:03am

    My, the religious functions of nuns today seem far different than those of the nuns in my youth. The religious habits they used to wear alone would have made it rough to climb that security fence ! Can see why the American bishops and Rome have a tough time corralling the feminist nuns of today . Guess the material world has become their focus like the rest of “social justice ” crowd.

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    • PutMoreOnMyPlate
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 2:02pm

      After serious consideration and with a heavy heart I have to admit that the Catholic church today has been so completely eroded with the world that they are no longer as a whole a Christian religion as much as a pagan religion. I pray that the congregation will find Christ on their own and be unblinded by the light of His love at how far misled they are as a whole. Some have and God bless them.

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  • tfmkeller
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:48am

    I’m Sorry, I didn’t understand ……….this was a remake of the Three Stooges………Maybe we should send them on a world tour of North Korea, Egypt, China,Russia……and lets see how their actions are
    treated…..After all don’t we hear how their cultures are so much older and wiser then ours !!!!

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    • BryanB
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:16am

      This is what happens when hire contract security guards, and not your own people………

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  • Todd Decker
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:38am

    It’s like everything in life — even though the possibility is there, people always fall into the “it won’t happen to me or to the place I live” mentality. Then something does happen, people wake up for a bit, then complacency starts creeping in again.

    Too bad these three weren’t killed, as they easily and justifiably could have been. That would stop future breach attempts. However, with as Progressive and anti-American as the news media and the current administration are, the guards doing their jobs would likely be strung up as a result. *_*

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  • 666Sucks
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:38am

    I was stationed at Ft Knox KY in the 70s. We had to call the Gold Vault every 15 minutes, in fact to this day I still remember the call signs and challenge/response. If they failed to answer, well the response was massive! But that was back before we put pro islamic communists in the White House when we considered the Soviets a threat, and there was gold at Ft Knox. I can’t help but wonder why our communist in chief is stationing Russian Special Forces here in the US for the first time in history at Ft Carlson, bet they are taking copious notes! Obama makes the Trojan Horse look like a child’s game of peek-a-boo!

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  • nattybrooks
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:34am

    i feel entirely safe that this much uranium can be with in reach of a nun i think 7/11 has the same security. made my first flight in 15yrs recently and saw first hand our tsa in action these guys couldnt secure a popcorn fart in an elevator but hey we’re safe no worries

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  • tfmkeller
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:31am

    The Government should make a point……..These people should be sent to Gitmo or a Maximum security jail…..But we will probably get “they are to old….” ……always an excuse not to follow the law.

    They broke in didn’t know what they were doing, therefore they could have caused a catastrophe…I don’t like war but I am not ready to bow down and be a slave……..That is why I vote every chance I get!!!!!

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  • RJJinGadsden
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:29am

    Unionized security guards can just continue to sit on their asses playing cards or sleeping in front of their monitors. Their jobs are protected.
    Many here are right about the security of this establishment as well as other facilities will not be ready for any real covert ops.

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  • myptofvu
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:26am

    Why do we have a Uranium facility when our weapons are made from Plutonium?

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    • PitaJ
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:06am

      Because Plutonium is made from Uranium dumbass

       
    • FreeTheMarket
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:31am

      Hahaha. Bravo, Pitaj. That’s a good way to weed out the ignorant commenters.

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  • Detroit paperboy
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:25am

    Well because we really don’t have a government, most of them do nothing……….the government is nothing but a jobs program for lazy morons who wouldn’t last one week in the private sector…..

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  • hi
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:20am

    A nun?

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  • Rickfromillinois
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:19am

    Why weren’t these 3 shot? They cut locks at 3 different barriers leading into a place where enriched uranium, which is used to make nuclear bombs, is stored. ANYONE breaking into such a facility should expect to be killed and should have their expectations fulfilled. They want to protest? Fine, but do it legally outside of the erected barriers and without the destruction of property.

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  • dublinthewagons
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:11am

    What they need is for Washington to throw more money into this facility. That cures all. Lol

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    • CHUBADAMS
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 1:41pm

      Today, by executive order I have appointed a staff to designate 10 billion dollars to study the effects of activism on nuns and hippies.

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  • momrules
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:10am

    Really folks, just how safe do you think Americans really are? We have more nuts ready to take down America from the inside than we do from the outside and something like this can still happen.

    Way to go all you security folks. You have really done a bang up job of not doing your job.

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    • 4xeverything
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:47am

      …and it’s nice to know that the Dems in government want to make sure that the rest of us are just as unsafe and vulnerable as they are.

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    • Walkabout
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 11:22am

      Top Dog Democrats either live in gated or exclusive communities with guards or have the money to do so on short notice.

      They don’t feel the fear.

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  • bizznizz1
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:07am

    Feel Safe ???? Be prepared for anything, we can help.http://www.fullmoonsurvival.com/ God Bless.

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  • yougottabekidding
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:04am

    Yes! Ignore alarms
    Yea people with no understanding of high tech or covert ops!
    Wonder what would have happened if more qualified personnel made a move.
    One thing we do know it wouldn’t be any of ours even in drills, cause it would be leaked.

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  • 13th Imam
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:02am

    Can’t you just hear the liberal pukes hew and cry, knashing of gums and calls for the defenders to be prosecuted if they had shot and killed these three dolts? Next time, just shoot them.

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  • beebacksoon
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:01am

    This isn’t the first time “secure” facilities were breached. I feel so much safer, don’t you?

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  • Snowleopard {gallery of cat folks}
    Posted on August 19, 2012 at 9:01am

    Secure? Right – this place seems as secure as the Pakistani air base, where nukes are kept, that was raided last week by Taliban forces; supposedly the nuclear stockpile was not compromised, yet how can we honestly be sure.

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    • Insolent
      Posted on August 19, 2012 at 5:54pm

      Snowleopard, we’ll be sure when one lights off next to an FOB.

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