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> DECISION BRIEF
> 1 June 1999
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> Saving Lieutenant Colonel McCallum
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> (Washington, D.C.): The good news on the ominous Chinese
> technology-acquisition front(1) is that Energy Secretary Bill
> Richardson has promised that heads will roll this week in the
> Department of Energy. The bad news is that it looks as though those
> really responsible may be spared.(2) Worse yet, one of the heads on
> the chopping block belongs to Ed McCallum -- an individual who has
> done more than practically anyone else at the Department of Energy to
> raise alarms about an environment that Richardson now acknowledges to
> be replete with "communications breakdowns...incompetent
> acts...[where] security was not considered important."
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> Gottemoeller vs. McCallum
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> Indeed, with Secretary Richardson's blessing, a senior official deeply
> implicated in the aforementioned insecurity practices -- Assistant
> Secretary of Energy for Nonproliferation and National Security Rose
> Gottemoeller(3) -- has already put McCallum, the Director of DOE's
> Office of Safeguards and Security, in bureaucratic limbo. On 19 April,
> she placed the retired Army lieutenant colonel on indefinite
> administrative leave (with pay) on the basis of what ten Members of
> Congress have described in a letter to Richardson as "trumped up and
> insupportable accusations that he has violated rules for handling
> classified information."
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> On 26 May, these Congressmen -- among them, the Number 3 man in the
> House Republican leadership, Majority Whip Tom Delay -- correctly
> described Mr. McCallum as "one of the few high-ranking DOE employees
> who has vigorously striven to implement and enforce a safeguards
> policy for DOE and the National Laboratories." They declare that this
> conscientious public servant is being harshly "repaid for his
> unfashionable commitment and inconvenient effectiveness in doing his
> job" in exposing and counteracting "the systematic and flagrant
> disregard for security issues that has thrived in the highest levels
> of [DOE] for several years."
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> Richardson's Contempt for Congress
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> Richardson's response to this letter was astoundingly contemptuous.
> According to the Chairman of the House Government Reform and Oversight
> Committee, Rep. Dan Burton, the Secretary of Energy declared in a
> meeting with McCallum that the letter "doesn't intimidate me, this
> isn't [expletive deleted]. These guys are my basketball buddies." In a
> letter to Richardson dated May 28, Congressman Burton said the
> Secretary seemed to be suggesting that "you had the ability to
> dissuade Members of Congress who might be inclined to pursue matters
> brought to our attention by Mr. McCallum."
>
> Regrettably, ex-Congressman Richardson has grounds for believing he
> can work his will with his former colleagues. Chairman Burton's
> missive describes how "when we met earlier this week [Richardson]
> asked me not to hold a hearing regarding the Department of Energy
> which would include as a witness Mr. Edward McCallum." Rep. Burton
> reluctantly acceded to the request, despite the fact that "[McCallum]
> appears to be uniquely qualified to address the many current oversight
> concerns facing Congress in light of the Cox Report's revelations."
> Earlier on, another personal intervention by Secretary Richardson had
> a similar result with Rep. Thomas Bliley, chairman of the House
> Commerce Committee, resulting in the abrupt cancellation of a Commerce
> subcommittee hearing at which Mr. McCallum had been invited to
> testify.
>
> The Trulock Precedent
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> Secretary Richardson is evidently determined to prevent Mr. McCallum
> from achieving the sort of transformation Notra Trulock has recently
> undergone. Mr. Trulock, it will be recalled, is the man who -- as
> Director of Intelligence for the Department of Energy -- first blew
> the whistle on the apparent Chinese penetration of the U.S. nuclear
> weapons laboratories.
>
> Unfortunately for him, Mr. Trulock's warnings conflicted with the
> Clinton Administration's policy of "engaging" Beijing and were
> repeatedly suppressed. Like Ed McCallum, a job action was taken
> against him by Ms. Gottemoeller, in this case demotion to the
> temporary position of Acting Deputy Director of Intelligence. His
> career would have been permanently blighted but for the opportunity
> afforded Mr. Trulock by the Congress publicly to illuminate the
> penetration made easier by Clinton policies, and the cover-up mounted
> to keep it from coming to light. Last week, Secretary Richardson gave
> him a performance bonus and professed his desire to keep Mr. Trulock
> on his "team" (a sentiment that appears, however, not to extend to
> giving him his old job back!)
>
> Will Lt. Col. McCallum Get His Day in Court?
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> In the absence of a comparable public platform, Lt. Col. McCallum is
> suffering one indignity after another. In addition to having to retain
> a lawyer at his own considerable expense to defend himself against
> Richardson-Gottemoeller's "trumped-up" charges, he has been given an
> ultimatum: Accept banishment to a DOE facility in Albuquerque,
> acknowledge a security infraction and agree to have an official
> reprimand placed in his personnel file -- to put it mildly, a
> career-blighting deal -- or face unspecified, but dire, consequences.
>
> Even more Kafkaesque, Assistant Secretary Gottemoeller reportedly last
> week held a meeting in which she indicated that McCallum's Office of
> Safeguards and Security may lose 10% of its budget. (This would come
> on top of a roughly 20% cut it has sustained in recent years.) Such an
> initiative seems more consistent with the DOE policies Mr. Richardson
> now decries than with his endlessly repeated assurances that -- thanks
> to his leadership in tightening up security practices -- the
> Department's proverbial barn door is now certifiably closed.
>
> The Bottom Line
>
> To his credit, Chairman Burton last week served notice on Secretary
> Richardson that he intends to have Mr. McCallum testify before his
> committee in the near future. This hearing should not only put a
> spotlight on the witness' years of heretofore unrecognized efforts to
> protect the Nation's nuclear secrets. It should also make clear that
> substantial responsibility for the egregious insecurity at DOE
> facilities and the national laboratories in recent years rests with
> senior policy-makers -- whose disdain for time-tested physical,
> information and personnel security practices appears to rival Mr.
> Richardson's apparent contempt for Congress.
>
> If Secretary Richardson's purge is to be at all just, to say nothing
> of complete, it had better include among its targets political
> appointees like Rose Gottemoeller. Congress should, in addition,
> ensure that some good comes out of all this by seeing to it that Ed
> McCallum's reputation and career are fully rehabilitated, either by
> entrusting to him the new job of "security czar" at the Department of
> Energy or by creating an independent position from which he can
> perform this critical function.
>
> The latter approach is likely to prove needed if Sec. Richardson
> approves a draft decision memorandum dated 17 May 1999 that would
> reorganize "Safeguards and Security Roles and Responsibilities." This
> plan would appear to give the nuclear weapons laboratories and DOE
> "field offices" latitude on security matters that their track record
> suggests they have not exactly earned. Mr. Richardson would be
> ill-advised to provide critics with such compelling proof that his
> damage-control operation is about political cover, not protecting what
> remains of the Department of Energy's secrets.
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> - 30 -
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> 1. In the process of denying the Cox Committee's charges that it had
> acquired U.S. nuclear weapons secrets via espionage, the People's
> Republic of China yesterday called attention to the irresponsible
> practice of organizations like the Natural Resources Defense Council
> and the Federation of American Scientists of putting sensitive
> weapons-related data on the Internet. The Chinese clearly "doth
> protest too much" in arguing that the information they have let the
> United States know they have came from these open sources. In fact,
> the detailed designs for American thermonuclear weapons known to be in
> their possession could only have come from secret data bases. With its
> public relations stunt, however, China has helped to underscore the
> irresponsible folly of anti-nuclear activists who -- against all logic
> -- believe that the cause of non-proliferation is being served by
> their efforts to spread around materials helpful to those interested
> in designing or otherwise acquiring nuclear arms.
>
> 2. This is especially true since the problem with Chinese acquisition
> of sensitive U.S. technology has not been limited to the Department of
> Energy. While most of the attention generated by the Cox Report -- and
> most of the smoke blown on the Administration's behalf -- revolves
> around the allegations of espionage at DOE facilities, the bulk of
> that study and the majority of its thirty-eight recommendations deal
> with the acquisition, diversion and/or theft by China and other
> potential adversaries of militarily relevant U.S. non-nuclear
> technology. Those in the White House, National Security Council,
> Commerce, State and Defense Departments and elsewhere responsible for
> allowing the wholesale loss of such technology deserve censure every
> bit as much as those culpable for the compromise of America's nuclear
> secrets.
>
> 3. See the Center's Decision Briefs entitled Giving 'Clinton's Legacy'
> New Meaning: The Buck Stops at the President's Desk on the 'Legacy'
> Code , Other D.O.E. Scandals (No. 99-D 52, 29 April 1999), Senate
> Given Another Opportunity to Reject Clinton's Policy of
> Denuclearization: the Gottemoeller Nomination (No. 98-D 166, 29
> September 1999) and Clinton's Reckless Nuclear Agenda Revealed? Study
> Co-Authored By Candidate For Top Pentagon Job Is Alarming (No. 97-D
> 96, 12 July 1997).
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