WASHINGTON, May 23 (UPI) -- Sen. Richard Shelby says it's ``long past time'' that Attorney General Janet Reno resigned because of her handling of the Chinese espionage scandal. Shelby, the Alabama Republican who chairs the Senate Intelligence Committee, said today on the CBS talk show ``Face the Nation'' that Reno must be held responsible for the botched investigation of China's spying on U.S. weapons laboratories. Sen. Robert Torricelli, D-N.J., said on the same program that ``something is very wrong'' when a bipartisan congressional committee ``has so little confidence'' in Reno's abilities. ``We know this espionage has probably gone on for 20 years, through the Reagan and Bush administrations,'' Torricelli said. ``China now has. ..a variety of warheads based on American design, which can reach the United States.'' Shelby called the spying ``the worst in the history of this country,'' adding that the Chinese government ``got just about everything we had.'' On Tuesday, a congressional report on the spying scandal will be published. The report from Rep. Christopher Cox, R-Calif. -- expected to savage the administration -- is the result of a year's investigation by a bipartisan nine-member committee. The investigation started its life as a pet project of former House speaker Newt Gingrich, who wanted to investigate the Clinton administration's sale of technology to China. Cox and his staff discovered a pattern of Chinese spying spanning three decades -- and while Cox says he was assisted by the Central Intelligence Agency, he was strongly rebuffed by the Justice Department when he sought answers there. Also on ``Face the Nation,'' Secretary of State Madeline Albright said she should've been told about the espionage before this year. ``I was not briefed, that was wrong, and I've made that clear,'' Albright said. ``The Department of Energy should have briefed me. This has been rectified.'' The nuclear-weapons laboratories are getting better security systems, she said, adding that the Chinese information theft was very serious. ``We know this is serious, and we have no illusions about dealing with the Chinese.'' On the same program, Senate majority leader Trent Lott, R-Miss., had harsh words for Clinton's administration, the Department of Energy and especially the Justice Department. ``Somebody dropped the ball,'' Lott said. ``I think it's shocking... Some heads should roll. Somebody made some major mistakes and somebody needs to be accountable.'' Lott said Reno didn't allow the FBI to investigate claims that China was stealing technology from the Department of Energy's research labs, and that she specifically denied a wiretap of suspected spies' telephone lines when DOE intelligence officials asked for one. On NBC's ``Meet the Press,'' former DOE intelligence director Notra Trulock -- now the acting deputy director of that department -- said his attempts to stop the spying met high-level resistance. ``I was too unwilling to back off this issue and let it die,'' said Trulock, who was a star witness in the Cox committee's investigation. ``It should not be this difficult for an official in my capacity to bring these issues to the attention of the national leadership, the White House, and so forth.'' Trulock called the scandal ``on a magnitude equal to the Rosenbergs'' -- referring to Julius and Ethel Rosenberg, who were sentenced to death after being found guilty of giving U.S. nuclear secrets from the Los Alamos laboratory to the Russians in the 1940s. Cox, also appearing on ``Meet the Press,'' said, ``Notra Trulock knew about these things inside the government. But he represented that there were forces (keeping) him from testifying.'' The Department of Energy won't meet even ``minimal security standards'' until next year, Cox said. ``And when it comes to our national security, a day late and a dollar short is not good enough,'' he said. Secretary of Energy Bill Richardson, appearing today on ABC's ``This Week,'' said the committee's findings ``are not conclusive yet'' and that the problems are being corrected. ``There was lax security in the labs in the 70s, the 80s and the 90s, '' Richardson said. ``But we cannot politicize this issue. We cannot over-dramatize conclusions that are not conclusive yet.'' Richardson acknowledged that the Chinese stole nuclear secrets that ``probably accelerated their design'' of nuclear weapons. ``But we have to put this issue in perspective,'' he said. ``We have. ..6,000 warheads. The Chinese have 23.''  