OUSTED SECURITY CHIEF BACK AT LOS ALAMOS

In March, Los Alamos National Laboratory secu­rity chief Stanley Busboom was forced to resign for his role in oust­ing two whistle-​​blowers from the world’s best-​​known nuclear weapons facil­ity.
Now, a lit­tle more than six months later, Busboom is back — as a con­sul­tant to the same Los Alamos divi­sion he was once com­pelled to leave, lab offi­cials con­firm.
“It looks to me like the rats are return­ing to the ship,” said Peter Stockton, an inves­ti­ga­tor with the watch­dog group Project on Government Oversight. He charged Busboom with help­ing main­tain a “cul­ture of retal­i­a­tion” at Los Alamos, and with neglect­ing the lab’s famously porous defenses.
My Wired News arti­cle has the low­down on Busboom’s return.

October 1st, 2003 | Los Alamos and Labs | Comments Off Both comments and pings are currently closed.