Media Mr. Magoos blind to Clinton pattern Paul Sperry © 2000 WorldNetDaily.com WASHINGTON -- "The incident at Los Alamos is just the latest in a series of security problems that have plagued the government recently," the New York Times reported. The government? Please, Americans aren't blind. Unlike the Mr. Magoos in the mainstream media, they can see a pattern has developed over the past seven-and-a-half years of the Clinton administration. Security breaches have spread to every federal agency dealing with national security secrets, from Commerce to Energy's nuclear weapons labs to the Pentagon to State and to even the CIA. Yet they are all brushed off by Clinton officials as isolated incidents. And the trumpeting strumpets in the prestige press go right along with the melody, suspending their trademark skepticism. But make no mistake: These aren't accidents. Career officials in the U.S. intelligence community say privately that the Clinton administration came in and ordered a wholesale stand-down of national security safeguards in every agency that counts. The Clinton administration, not "the government," has turned our national security complex into a sieve. And the holes just keep getting bigger -- and the espionage apparently bolder. Witness the latest "embarrassment" at Los Alamos. Somehow, two shirt-pocket-sized hard-drive tapes loaded with top-secret nuclear bomb data just magically and innocently vanished from locked compartments inside a locked bag in a vault with motion and infrared sensors in the supposedly super-secret X Division where physicists with the highest security clearance design nuclear weapons. But it wasn't an inside job, administration officials say; no spies here! Must have been "misplaced" or "destroyed." Yeah, an absent-minded scientist left them on his dashboard along with his Blockbuster rentals and wants to avoid the lab fine of returning melted tapes. Give me a break. Such mind-numbing excuses are typical of an administration that thinks we're all a bunch of Hottentots ready to be colonized. What's shocking is that the establishment East Coast media keep chugging the swill. How much more vital U.S. military intelligence must the media see take wing? How many more laptops, hard drives, CIA briefing books, nuclear-bomb legacy codes and other classified information must they see lost? How many more "accidents" before the dialogue and tone of reporting changes? Some more-curious media types are starting to wonder, finally, who's minding the store. But they're still pulling up short. They should be asking if the store isn't being minded on purpose. Then, they might find that explanations quickly shift from "bureaucratic snafus" to "willful disregard." Blame shifts from the generic -- "government" -- to the specific -- "White House." And adjectives shift from "embarrassing" to even "treasonous." If the old media gatekeepers ever regained the jaundiced eye they had under Republican administrations, they might ask why the lab took so long to report the heist, er, disappearance of the nuke data. Was it to put distance in the public's mind between the fed-set fire and the theft, er, loss? And then they might pin the Energy secretary and the Los Alamos lab director down on exactly how they've "tightened security." "To have this happen after all that we have done to improve security," lamented Los Alamos director John Browne. Boy, I feel safe. All that you've done? Like what? Los Alamos contractors tell me that Energy still hasn't replaced controls on foreign visitors. In 1998 alone, the labs hosted more than 1,100 foreign visitors from Russia and 918 from China, the only country with long-range nuclear-tipped missiles pointed at U.S. cities (13 under target, to be exact). Who rolled out the Red carpet? Browne. That's right, as I first reported in a June 28, 1999, Investor's Business Daily editorial, Browne refuses to turn away such visitors, even though he acknowledges they "represent a challenge in protecting classified and sensitive information." "At first glance, the exclusion of foreign nationals may look like an attractively simple solution," he reasoned in a May 18, 1999, internal lab paper. "But it would not solve the broader security problems that the world faces." The world? Huh? Time to start worrying about the security problems in your own country, Mr. Director. But don't bet on the media asking such questions. They can't even report why security had to be tightened in the first place. Few, if any, mainstream stories on the latest Los Alamos leak so far have mentioned the findings of the bipartisan Cox Commission report. Just a year ago, it documented how China's People's Liberation Army stole from Los Alamos and other labs secrets to every warhead deployed in the U.S. arsenal. And the massive Chinese espionage has bunched up hard on Clinton's watch. Eight of the 11 cases cited in the Cox report took place during the Clinton years, as I first reported in a June 9, 1999, IBD story (which was later excerpted by L. Brent Bozell III in the Wall Street Journal). And 10 of the 11 leaks were first discovered then. (I gleaned this from just the 872-page declassified version of the Cox report. An additional 375 or so pages were censored by the White House. No telling what horrors lurk in there.) Nor has the media bothered to add that "Taiwanese American scientist Wen Ho Lee" -- who's in jail now for downloading Los Alamos nuke codes on 10 portable tapes (seven of which are missing) -- has traveled extensively in China in recent years, giving lectures (and who knows what else) to PLA nuclear physicists. By reporting all this parade of security lapses in fits and starts and not putting them into any broader context, the media is doing a disservice to the American people. Reporting each new leak without any linkage has the effect (perhaps desired) of desensitizing, rather than shocking, us. You can just hear the breakfast banter, as families open up their newspapers: "Oh, more nuclear warhead data are missing from Los Alamos ... ho-hum. ... Hey, honey, did you hear about that cute, two-faced kitten?" But we should be shocked. And angry. Ronald Reagan once said something that's stuck with me. When he was staring down the Soviet bear, he said, "Don't be afraid to see what you see." He was referring to communists trying to gain footholds in our hemisphere, in Nicaragua and Grenada, and elsewhere. In other words, don't bury your head in the sand. If you see enough evidence of a threat, you mustn't wish it away. But you must do something about it. It was good advice, and it worked for Reagan. 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