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How the hell does the Los Alamos National Lab lose sixty-seven laptops???
The watchdog group Project on Government Oversight on Wednesday released a memo dated Feb. 3 from the Energy Department's National Nuclear Security Administration outlining the loss of the computers.
Kevin Roark, a spokesman for Los Alamos, on Wednesday confirmed the computers were missing and said the lab was initiating a monthlong inventory to account for every computer. He said the computers were a cybersecurity issue because they may contain personal information like names and addresses, but they did not contain any classified information.
Thirteen of the missing computers were lost or stolen in the past 12 months, including three computers that were taken from a scientist's home in Santa Fe, N.M., on Jan. 16, and a BlackBerry belonging to another employee was lost "in a sensitive foreign country," according to the memo and an e-mail from a senior lab manager.
The e-mail was also released by the watchdog group.
The theft of the three computers in January triggered the inventory and a review of the lab's policies regarding home use of government computers, Roark said.
Only one of the three computers stolen from the employee's home was authorized for home use, which raised concerns "as to whether we were fully complying with our own policies for offsite computer usage," he said.
Of course, they insist that no classified information was compromised, but seriously - the people asking us to believe that are the same people who lost sixty seven laptops so pardon me if I don't just shine it on with an "Oh, okay then. No biggie."
Can we get a thorough evaluation of the damage done by the pathetic political hacks that the Bush administration put in place to destroy all our institutions from within? Until then, you will just have to forgive me - or not, I really don't care - if I don't fall all over myself rushing to accept their word on any damned thing. |
