-Caveat Lector- Wednesday June 2, 9:22 AM Hazel O'Leary's Rocky Flats Horror Show In a hair-raising Nukegate report that was largely overlooked as America tuned out over the Memorial Day weekend, William J. Broad wrote in Sunday's New York Times: "For more than half a decade, the Clinton administration was shoveling atomic secrets out the door as fast as it could, literally by the ton. Millions of previously classified ideas and documents relating to nuclear arms were released to all comers, including China's bomb makers." The Times quoted then-presiding Energy Secretary Hazel O'Leary (1993 - 1997), who proudly proclaimed at the beginning of her tenure: "The United States must stand as a leader. We are declassifying the largest amount of information in the history of the department." Now the American Spectator's Kenneth Timmerman adds another dimension to O'Leary's "openess initiative," in a report that zeroes in on the new policy's impact at nuclear storage sites like Rocky Flats, Colorado. The Rocky Flats security scandal may be the most damaging yet, since the cover-up is apparently still ongoing. Current Energy Secretary Bill Richardson, who just gave department whistleblower Notra Trulock a $10,000 reward for exposing security breaches at Los Alamos, is desperately trying to keep what O'Leary did at the Colorado site under wraps. According to Timmerman, "Richardson is now attempting to prevent a top DOE official in charge of safeguards and security from testifying before Congress. Why? Because that official, Edward J. McCallum, had made clear his intention to warn Congress and the public of devastating gaps in security procedures at nuclear storage sites such as Rocky Flats." Richardson already knows what McCallum has to say, since McCallum privately warned the Clinton administration last January about trouble at Rocky Flats. The consequences of the cover-up could be dramatic. "Terrorists could easily penetrate the facility and steal weapons grade plutonium, or construct and detonate a nuclear bomb on the site without DOE security teams being able to prevent it," reports the Spectator, based on what McCallum told Timmerman. It gets worse. McCallum was fired from his DOE post, or rather, "placed on adminstrative leave without pay" just last month. Bill Richardson personally gave the order to axe the whistleblower because he was "pissed off" at McCallum's attempts to inform Congress, according to what sources have told the Spectator. White House flaks may have a tough time spinning the Rocky Flats scandal for other reasons. Not only has the administration "repeatedly and obstinately" refused to correct the problem, but Mrs. O'Leary may be vulnerable to conflict of interest charges. Timmerman writes: "Under O'Leary's stewardship, Rocky Flats cut its security force by 40 percent, allowing prime contactor Kaiser-Hill LLC to improve its profit margin despite an overall reduction in the funds it received from DOE. Indeed, Kaiser Hill actually earned performance bonuses from DOE, because its cleanup operations were going ahead on schedule." Kaiser-Hill was apparently grateful for Mrs. O'Leary's indulgence, since she wound up on the board of ICF Kaiser, its parent company, upon her retirement from DOE. She remains on Kaiser's board today, while her husband does consulting work for the company. O'Leary's Rocky Flats horror show only adds to the former Energy Secretary's Nukegate woes. 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