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Dan Burton: that is absolutely correct. However, this administration, for whatever reason, from top to bottom, is guilty of either…

On the recordApril 29, 1999
that is absolutely correct. However, this administration, for whatever reason, from top to bottom, is guilty of either just mishandling all of this or worse. I do not know what it is. But we need to get to the bottom of it because this endangers, as I said before, every man, woman and child in this country. Let me just go on with this article, because I have some things I would like to comment about it. When the FBI finally searched Lee's computer last month following his dismissal, they found that he was trying to erase top secret information that he had put in the computer. The official said that a password was needed to access the information even after Lee transferred it from the classified computer system, but all he had to do was give the password to one of his Communist friends and they could access every nuclear secret before him at that laboratory, everything that was in that computer, and this was top secret information that had been transferred to a non-top secret computer. The unclassified system allows investigators to determine when and whether the data was accessed, the official said, and initial indications are that the materials was accessed. So they think somebody did get into the computer and get this technology, at least a little bit. Who was looking at it remains unclear, the official said, since Lee could have given the password to anyone else in any government.
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Discussing security breaches related to classified information during a congressional hearing.

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