I'm pretty sure I am. Didn't they say everyone discharged since '75?

Raises hand.

So, now that data that is of great value to an ID thief is floating out there somewhere, what do the folks in charge propose to do to remedy the possibility that millions of voters are left vulnerable?

Propose legislation for credit monitoring? Give me a break. If it had been their personal data that had been swiped, you'd have seen every alphabet organization (FBI, NSA, etc) mobilized to track down the 'evildoers'.

With this misadministration, the buck stops nowhere....

Raising my hand...I am also wondering if person or persons unknown stole this data, what will they do with it? Sure not just sit around and look at it. Credit monitoring would be at least a start,(not tendering his resignation,,,the guy should have been fired at day one) But responsibility,,ah,,silly me.

Someone in comments on another blog mentioned that the lost disk represents more of a potential national security threat than suspected.

The veterans's information on the disk, if the info falls into the wrong hands, could be used to acquire identification cards and bumper/window stickers to gain access to U.S. military facilities around the world.

You know, the identification veterans need so they and their families, post-service, can still get onto U.S. military bases to shop at the PX or BX, as long as they have the proper identification.

Thus, the loss of this computer disk is on par with the outing of Valerie Plame, both in actual and potential damage to our national security.

BTW, since the VA official who took home this veterans' data disk has not been named, then I must presume that this person is another political appointee of the same incompetent caliber as many of the Bush administration's other political appointees.

And exactly what "project" was this Bush political appointee working on at home that required the computer disk with 26.5 million U.S. military veterans' information on it? Data-mining of veterans' information for political purposes?

When will the remaining 30 percent of U.S. citizens, who still obsessively support the Bush administration and the Republican Party, wake up and realize that these twisted people are actively endangering the lives of their own children?

Everything that the Bushites do is an attack on the "life, liberty and pursuit of happiness" of all the children of our democracy, including the children of the blindly-loyal followers of the neo-con Republican fools.

Oh right, these 30 percent probably are the neo-christians, with their completely anti-democracy, anti-American religious fundamentalist agenda for America. Who needs the al Qaeda threat when we've got them?

Raises hand, and extends middle finger.

Responsibility? Securing our nation via data safety? The only thing these incompetent bastards can protect is their own asses, and we are seeing how well that's beginning to work out.

There are a few good people still left serving our government, just not enough.

Starve the beast. Claim government is not fit as a way to get in power. Then prove that assertion by way of republican actions.

This just proves the VA and Social Security need to go.(/wingnut)

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