CAROL LIN, CNN ANCHOR: Energy Secretary Bill Richardson heads to Capitol Hill this morning where he'll be grilled about security at the Los Alamos Nuclear Weapons Lab. Today's hearing comes as new information suggests those two computer hard drives may have been missing longer than first thought. CNN's Bob Franken has that story from Washington. Good morning, Bob.</s>BOB FRANKEN, CNN NATIONAL CORRESPONDENT: Well, good morning. We are going to wait and see if Energy Secretary Richardson has any revelations, first, about the investigation. What we have been told is that the person who said that he had spotted it in the X Division of the highly security area of Los Alamos lab is one of the people who has taken a lie detector test. And investigators say some of those people have given contradictory information during those tests. In any case, what is causing the latest uproar is the fact that the possibility exists that these disks may not have been seen, really, until January. And many of the energy secretary's opponents are saying that shows that security is, indeed, very sloppy.</s>REP. PORTER GOSS (R), FLORIDA: Well, my understanding is the last absolute inventory that was taken, that was surely established where these hard drives were, was part of the Y2K survey, which, of course, would have been at the beginning of year. So that gives us quite a time frame.</s>SEN. RICHARD SHELBY (R), ALABAMA: The local library, the local tool rental place has a much better idea of where their tools are, where their books are than they had in the lab at Los Alamos. It defies your imagination.</s>FRANKEN: Now, Energy Secretary Richardson and the other members of this team who will be testifying today say that they had been putting into place new security measures, making up for years and years of sloppiness, but that this took time and they were meeting quite a bit of resistance. Bob Franken, CNN, live, Washington.</s>LIN: Thank you, Bob. We'll have live coverage of Bill Richardson's testimony on Los Alamos this morning. That hearing is expected to begin around 9:30 Eastern.
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