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Looks like there may be more than one suspect. The storyline is taking some odd turns as it unfolds.
http://www.nti.org/gsn/article/lab-directors-urged-plutonium-facility-delay-ex-white-house-aide/
Tri-Valley Cares needs to be on this if they aren't already. We need to make sure that NNSA and LLNL does not make good on promises to pursue such stupid ideas as doing Plutonium experiments on NIF. The stupidity arises from the fact that a huge population is placed at risk in the short and long term. Why do this kind of experiment in a heavily populated area? Only a moron would push that kind of imbecile area. Do it somewhere else in the god forsaken hills of Los Alamos. Why should the communities in the Bay Area be subjected to such increased risk just because the lab's NIF has failed twice and is trying the Hail Mary pass of doing an SNM experiment just to justify their existence? Those Laser EoS techniques and the people analyzing the raw data are all just BAD anyways. You know what comes next after they do the experiment. They'll figure out that they need larger samples. More risk for the local population. Stop this imbecilic pursuit. They wan...
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I suspect we'll soon find out when he's called to testify before a Congressional Committee along with Captain Tom D'Ag.
That is the most twisted up logic you could provide? Come on out and admit that trusted advice is not about telling each party what they want to hear, but it is about speaking the truth, no matter who is listening. At least it used to be that way...
Like I said, naive or disingenuous. I'll be charitable and say in your cases naive. It might not be your logic, 2:30 pm, but it's Washington logic. Speaking truth to power gets you fired. Quickly. Get used to it.
Would venture that more staff would prefer to work for the former, but maybe not.
J. Robert Oppenheimer or Jan Hendrik Schoen?
Both LANS top level management and the NM Congressional delegation seems ambivalent about Los Alamos. This puts LANL in a very dangerous budgetary position.
When it comes time to "right-size" the NNSA complex it will be LANL that takes the brunt of the hits. The 12% cut of LANL employees done this spring was probably just the beginning of the process.
"I don't know the key to success, but the key to failure is trying to please everybody."
Bill Cosby, as quoted by Colin Powell in 'It Worked for Me: In Life and Leadership'.
http://www.forbes.com/sites/ericjackson/2012/01/02/the-seven-habits-of-spectacularly-unsuccessful-executives/
"I voted for CMRR before I voted against it."