Linton Brooks

Former Ambassador Linton F. Brooks was sworn in as Under Secretary of Energy for Nuclear Security/Administrator of the National Nuclear Security Administration (NNSA) on May 16, 2003. [http://www.nnsa.doe.gov/lintonfbrooksbio.htm Administrator, Ambassador Linton F. Brooks] NSNA Website, n.d., retrieved 1 April 2007] While he was NNSA administrator, the agency decided to raise the contractor fee for operating Los Alamos National Laboratory from $8 million to $79 million. The additional funds were to be extracted from the existing budget of the laboratory. [Santa Fe New Mexican, 20 May 2005: "Feds Sweeten Deal for LANL Manager", by D. Heil.] When asked by LANL employees how the additional costs were to be paid, Brooks replied in December 2005 that the new contractor would "realize operational efficiencies." On November 20, 2007, the new LANL manager announced layoffs. [Associated Press, 11/7/2007, "Los Alamos Nuclear Lab plans Layoffs," by F. Fonseca]

Resignation

Brooks resigned on January 4, 2007, because of security lapses, according to the "San Francisco Chronicle". [ [http://sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?f=/c/a/2007/01/05/NUKE.TMP "Nation's nuclear lab chief loses job"] , San Francisco Chronicle, 5 January 2007, Retrieved 1 April 2007.]

Brooks was reprimanded for not reporting to Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman regarding the theft of computer files at an NNSA facility in Albuquerque, NM, which contained Social Security numbers and other data for 1,500 workers.

Then, in October, classified weapons-related documents on USB thumb drives from the Los Alamos National Laboratory in New Mexico were found during a drug raid in the home of a woman who had worked at the lab.

Biography

According to his NNSA bio, prior to joining the George W. Bush Administration, Brooks was a vice president at the Center for Naval Analyses (CNA) and an advisor to Sandia National Laboratories. During the George H.W. Bush Administration, Brooks was Assistant Director for Strategic and Nuclear Affairs at the U.S. Arms Control and Disarmament Agency and was Head of the U.S. Delegation on Nuclear and Space Talks and Chief Strategic Arms Reductions (START) Negotiator in the State Department. In this latter capacity, he was responsible for final preparation of the START I Treaty, signed by Presidents Bush and Gorbachev in Moscow on July 31, 1991. In December 1992 he performed a similar function during the final preparation of the January 3, 1993, START II Treaty.

References

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