Turnip Trucks Return Ticket

By Mary Mosquera06/29/06
Washington Technology

[Updated) The Veterans Affairs Department said today that law enforcement officials had recovered the stolen laptop containing the personal data of more than 26 million veterans, and that initially it looks as though the data has not been accessed.

VA reported in May that a thief had stolen a laptop and hard drive from a career department employee’s home. The hardware included names, Social Security numbers and dates of birth of 26.5 million veterans who had served in the military and been discharged since 1975.

uh huh. No, Mary. The VA originally reported (months after the event] that DISKS had been stolen. Not a laptop and hard drive. DISKS. Liars can't even keep a simple spook story straight.

See Annie's original post from 5/22/06 on the "incident" and note the differences: V.A. rides in the Turnip Truck
lol

And this in tonight:

Spy Agency Sought U.S. Call Records Before 9/11, Lawyers Say
June 30 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. National Security Agency asked AT&T Inc. to help it set up a domestic call monitoring site seven months before the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks, lawyers claimed June 23 in court papers filed in New York federal court.

The allegation is part of a court filing adding AT&T, the nation's largest telephone company, as a defendant in a breach of privacy case filed earlier this month on behalf of Verizon Communications Inc. and BellSouth Corp. customers. The suit alleges that the three carriers, the NSA and President George W. Bush violated the Telecommunications Act of 1934 and the U.S. Constitution, and seeks money damages.

``The Bush Administration asserted this became necessary after 9/11,'' plaintiff's lawyer Carl Mayer said in a telephone interview. ``This undermines that assertion.'' U.S. Department of Justice spokesman Charles Miller and NSA spokesman Don Weber declined to comment.

The NSA initiative, code-named ``Pioneer Groundbreaker,'' asked AT&T unit AT&T Solutions to build exclusively for NSA use a network operations center which duplicated AT&T's Bedminster, New Jersey facility, the court papers claimed. That plan was abandoned in favor of the NSA acquiring the monitoring technology itself, plaintiffs' lawyers Bruce Afran said.

And may it all continue to crumble like sun-spotted Feta.




Heeee, and round and round and up and down we go again!
Come on, let`s twist again,
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