Knox Talks 7.27.04
By Steve Knox
Whether it be sanity, virginity, or just two diskettes containing highly sensitive nuclear weapons data, we all lose things. I do. I know you do too. Sometimes we find those things, but not always. It is always the most important things that we never find too. Is it not? Even worse is that no one is immune from this absentmindedness. Both the dubious government and its illegitimate children- government funded facilities, such as Los Alamos National Library in New Mexico have even fallen prey to this contagious bout of forgetfulness.
Nearly three weeks ago, on July 7th, two diskettes...excuse me, "Classified Removable Electronic Media (CREM)" were reported as missing in Los Alamos National Library's Weapons Physics Directorate. Now when I see the words "Missing" and "Weapons" used in the same sentence, I do not think "Oh, well that's just dandy! Nothing better to brighten up my day than knowing that a nuclear research facility 'misplaced' their work." I would expect to hear that from someone suffering from a severe Prozac addiction, not a sane, competent individual such as myself. Personally, it is more than a little disconcerting that this information has gone missing. Initial searches revealed nothing, and the in-depth search of the enitre complex has yielded similar results. Maybe we should check Berger's belongings?
Since Payne already covered this topic in detail, I will not go too deep into it. For a long time, Dubya claimed that there were massive, massive stockpiles of Weapons of Mass Destruction, or WMDs, hidden in Iraq. However, after months and months of searching, UN Inspectors had found only a fraction of what they suspected to have been hidden. It was almost as though the governemt had "lost" these massive stockpiles of biological and chemical weapons, as well as the means to deliver them. Poor old George. He came across stupid enough as it was, he sure didn't need the help of the UN. We also lost a great deal of money in order to cover the cost of these near-fruitless searches. I say near-fruitless because we did indeed find a fruit. He was hiding in a hole beneath a styrofoam cork. Poor and stupid, what a combination.
All of this begs the question: what if we wake up one morning to the headlines "Cheney Found Dead in His Sleep"? A massive investigation would begin, trying to immediately pin a murderer, because we all know that every time a major political figure kicks the bucket, it is someone else's dirty work. Weeks and months would pass with no development, then one night, Tom Brokaw tells us that Dick's death was the result of him not taking his medication. "Why not?", you may ask. The answer is simple: He misplaced it.
Our government is about as good at finding its own things as it is at finding other peoples’. If we lose something, it could be years before we find it again. At least we know where the National Archive documents are. Finding those as fast as we did must have set some kind of record.
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