A Disaster Waiting to Happen - Illegal Aliens Worked Inside Nuclear Weapons Facility

From Human Events Online:

On June 14, the inspector general of the Energy Department completed a report revealing that illegal aliens had been working at one of the Energy Department’s “most sensitive sites.”

The location in question was the Y-12 National Security Complex in Oak Ridge, Tenn. In his report, Energy Inspector General Gregory H. Friedman said: “The mission of Y-12 includes the manufacture of nuclear weapons components; weapons dismantlement, storage, and evaluation; and, the warehousing of enriched uranium material.”

The IG discovered that the Energy Department had hired a contractor who used illegal alien workers for a construction project at the facility.

“We found that foreign construction workers, using false documents, gained access to the Y-12 site on multiple occasions,” said the report. “Specifically, we determined 16 foreign construction workers were illegal aliens. Some of these workers acquired facility access badges and were permitted access to the main Y-12 site, and others were permitted access to an adjacent Y-12 leased facility. Certain information associated with the construction of the Y-12 leased facility, which was planned to store documents up to the Secret-Restricted Data level was considered Unclassified Controlled Nuclear Information (UCNI) and Official Use Only (OUO). Consequently these individuals may have had opportunities to inappropriately access this type of information.”

Now count the presumed layers of homeland defense these illegal aliens defeated: First, they defeated the defenses we put at our borders to stop people from entering the country illegally or from entering with the intent to stay beyond the terms of their visa. Second, they defeated the defenses we put within the country itself to discover those who are living and working here illegally. Third, they defeated the defenses put in place by the Energy Department to stop unknown foreign nationals from working inside a nuclear weapons facility.

“Also, we learned that the Office of Counterintelligence was not aware of the presence of foreign construction workers at the Y-12 leased facility until notified by the Office of Inspector General during this inspection,” reported Friedman. “Counterintelligence checks had not been performed for these individuals to that point.”

Well, at least we caught them after they got inside Y-12.

Right...Now I can sleep better at night. (Sarcasm off)

This is security? Protecting the citizens of the United States should be priority number one for our elected government and armed forces.

To Add Insult to Injury:
Illegal Immigrants got licenses to transport hazardous materials. What idiots are allowing this???