Tuesday, May 30, 2006

Deputy to the Deputy Fired Over Veterans Mess

So they are firing the little fish on this mess and not the person at the top that allowed the stealing of the Vets info to happen.

Michael H. McLendon, deputy assistant secretary for policy who supervised the VA data analyst who lost the data, said he would relinquish his high-level post on Friday.

So the deputy to the assistant to the assistant got axed. So why hasn't VA Secretary Jim Nicholson resigned yet? This betrayal of the basic tenets of security happened under his watch. The whole idea of the entire records of 26.5 million Vets walking out of the VA admin in a laptop is retarded in the first place. He needs to bite the bullet and resign and the next guy needs to go hammer and tongs to tighten security. This isn't a few thousand credit card records but the private info of guys who bled for this country. Nicholson should go.

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