“These are secrets that could be valuable to al Qaeda,” Markey tells CBS News. “Our enemies want to have access to the most dangerous technologies to hurt our country. [The Laboratory and the Department of Energy] keep promising they’re going to put better security measure in place, but they never do.”

In his letter addressed to Energy Secretary Samuel Bodman, Markey outlines years of high-profile security breaches at Los Alamos, followed by promises from the Energy Department and lab officials to tighten the ship. That includes weapons design information being obtained by the Chinese in the late 90s and missing computer hard drives or similar materials in 2000, 2002 and 2004. The security breach in 2004 led to a temporary complex-wide shutdown of the laboratory that cost taxpayers at least several hundred million dollars, according to the Department of Energy.

- FBI Looking Into Los Alamos Breach, CBSNews.com, September 18, 2010.

2. Scherzinger has stressed the importance of being on time for shows following Justin Bieber’s late appearance at London's O2 last night (March 4).

The singer, who is staying in the same London hotel as Bieber while she promotes her new single ‘Boomerang’, explained to Digital Spy that it is crucial to be on time when you have a younger fanbase.

Asked if she would have waited to see Bieber, she said: “I mean if it were someone like Whitney Houston I’d be waiting! I’m getting too old to stay up late these days so I don’t have a lot of patience for that kind of thing.”

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