[wyldfire]

The national labs in general almost certainly do plenty of work for clandestine organizations already. I doubt they need the excuses related to mishandling of dangerous material. They just never discuss those things with the press.

> "What's in section PF-3?"

> "That's classified, I can't discuss it."

> "What's in section PF-4?"

> "That's where we used to work on plutonium for DoE and IAEA but we had a pattern of problems there and it was shut down."

[exikyut]

Okay, that's a very fair point. Thanks.

(Along with, uh, "do not attribute to malice that which can be explained by manglement")